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Quotes by Theologian
"Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion."
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"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."
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"No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?"
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"The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows."
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"Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church."
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"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end."
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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"
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"Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name."
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"The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost to the point of making us sick. Do you know a work of literature written in the last, say, fifteen years that you think has any lasting quality? I don't. It is partly idle chatter, partly propaganda, partly self-pitying sentimentality, but there is no insight, no ideas, no clarity, no substance and almost always the language is bad and constrained. On this subject I am quite consciously a laudator temporis acti."
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"Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it."
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"The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another."
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"When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us."
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"As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor. Never reserve anything; never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives."
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"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."
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"You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart."
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"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."
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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
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"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."
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"Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."
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"This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments."
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"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he."
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"God is best known in not knowing him."
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"Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart."
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"Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution."
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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."
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"Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue."
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"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."
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"I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace."
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"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."
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"Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained."
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"Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there."
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"From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you."
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"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."
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"If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth."
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"There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws."
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"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
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"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind."
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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
Evil,
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"The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me."
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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
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"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."
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"Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also."
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"God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own."
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"At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption."
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"Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling."
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"When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it."
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