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Quotes by Theologian
"But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God."
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"Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also."
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"Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws."
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"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."
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"Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone."
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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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"Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived."
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"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become."
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"All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions."
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"If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself."
Want,
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"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."
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"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
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"Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening."
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"All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord."
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"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited."
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"Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all he is connected with God by prayer and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life."
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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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"Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself."
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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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"This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven."
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"The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end."
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"You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions* in about two minutes."
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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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"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it."
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"We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth."
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"In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature."
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"Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer."
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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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"If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already."
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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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"Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are."
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"The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second, immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor."
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"The mysterious, invisible authority of the divine child over human hearts is more solidly grounded then the visible and resplendent power of earthly rulers. Ultimately all authority on earth must serve only the authority of Jesus Christ over humankind."
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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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"As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present."
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"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them."
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"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."
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"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
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"Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority."
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"If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life."
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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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"They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man."
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"Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad."
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"But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee."
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"For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles."
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"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."
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"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."
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"If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest."
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