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Quotes by Theologian
"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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"As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions."
38
"To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written."
38
"I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know."
38
"Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge."
38
"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."
38
"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."
38
"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."
38
"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."
38
"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."
38
"Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God."
38
"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."
38
"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."
38
"The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act."
38
"Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind."
38
"The call of God is a call according to the nature of God; where we go in obedience to that call depends entirely on the providential circumstances which God engineers, and is not of any moment. The danger is to fit the call of God into the idea of our own discernment and say, "God called me there. If we say so and stick to it, then it is good-bye to the development of the life of God in us."
38
"You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it."
38
"As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground."
38
"Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing."
38
"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!"
38
"And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use."
37
"The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual."
37
"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."
37
"But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now."
37
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
37
"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
37
"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance."
37
"If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is."
37
"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
37
"In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution."
37
"We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed."
37
"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."
37
"Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says-I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys, but as our Father."
37
"The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent."
37
"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
36
"So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues."
36
"Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory."
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