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Quotes by Theologian
"He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion."
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"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
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"Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation."
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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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"Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved."
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"The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history."
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"Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God."
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"All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved."
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"Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind."
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"One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers."
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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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"His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does."
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"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation."
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"Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!"
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"He comes where He commands us to leave."
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"God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love."
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"It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual."
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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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"And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use."
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"The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all."
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"Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind."
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"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."
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"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
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"What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along."
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"The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all."
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"To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe."
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"What God chooses for us children of men is always the best."
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"The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes."
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"Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest."
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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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"But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite."
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"The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy."
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"Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed."
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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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"Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person."
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"The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own."
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"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."
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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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"In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution."
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"The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not."
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"Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe."
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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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"Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old."
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"If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible."
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