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Quotes by Theologian
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
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"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing."
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"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."
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"A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it."
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"Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it."
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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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"Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved."
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"The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world."
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"Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!"
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"In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies."
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"The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are "in the soup of actual circumstances."
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"Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed."
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"We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus."
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"True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs."
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"Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions, for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth."
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"The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes."
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"Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before."
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"Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much."
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"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."
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"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes."
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"When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian."
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"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he."
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"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
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"Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue."
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"I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in."
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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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"If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king."
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"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
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"On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet."
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"For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us."
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"When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer."
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"If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel."
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"In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue."
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"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
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"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."
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"Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day."
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"God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received."
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"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."
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"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."
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"Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them."
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"The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition."
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"Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer."
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"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."
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"Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul."
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