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Quotes by Theologian
"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."
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"When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive."
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"Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed."
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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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"The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us."
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"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."
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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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"Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you."
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"The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user."
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"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."
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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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"The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe."
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"Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility."
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"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."
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"I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay."
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"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call."
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"The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions."
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"But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul."
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"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power."
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"The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?"
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"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient."
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"If we rely on the Holy Spirit we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate and when they are inarticulate reverence grows deeper and deeper."
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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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"Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying."
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"We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family."
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"Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God."
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"Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun."
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"A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works."
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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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"Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin."
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"In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!"
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"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."
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"But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand."
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"Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?"
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"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier."
Life,
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"Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued."
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"Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus."
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"The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent."
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"Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?"
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"The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all."
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"The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time."
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"Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise."
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"At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men."
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"You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God."
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"If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God."
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