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Quotes by Theologian
"We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family."
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"To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life."
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"It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE ' IS ' HARD."
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"God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world."
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"Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin."
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"Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret."
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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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"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within."
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"We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth."
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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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"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes."
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"If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them."
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"One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body."
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"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!"
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"Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half - good to rebel against."
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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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"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."
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"If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen."
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"God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair."
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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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"Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only."
May,
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"What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along."
May,
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"The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being."
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"Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us."
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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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"What God chooses for us children of men is always the best."
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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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"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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"They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed."
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"To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself."
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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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"Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools."
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"Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment."
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"But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required."
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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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"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
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"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."
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"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient."
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"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
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"Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx."
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"If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."
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"Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts."
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"Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength."
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"Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God."
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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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"In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing."
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"Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us."
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