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Quotes by Theologian
"We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once."
Life,
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"The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica."
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"In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behaviour must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus."
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"The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible."
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"The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased."
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"Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain."
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"Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility."
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"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."
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"Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers."
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"If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied."
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"Forgiveness becomes central to Jesus' teaching, because to receive reality is always to 'bear it, to bear with reality for not meeting all of our needs. To accept reality is to forgive reality for being what it is, almost day by day and sometimes even hour by hour. Such a practice creates patient and humble people.Forgiveness reveals three goodnesses simultaneously. When we forgive, we choose the goodness of the other over their faults, we experience God's goodness flowing through ourselves, and we also experience our own capacity for goodness in a way that almost surprises us. We are finally in touch with a much Higher Power, and we slowly learn how to draw upon this Infinite Source."
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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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"And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence."
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"The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out."
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"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."
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"In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to."
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"You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it."
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"When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves"
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"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."
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"Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good."
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"It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God."
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"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."
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"Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years."
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"I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that."
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"The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other."
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"It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles."
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"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."
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"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend."
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"In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be."
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"The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it."
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"Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors."
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"People should always have something which they prefer to life."
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"The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does."
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"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better."
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"The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws."
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"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."
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"True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude."
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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."
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"At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered for My sake. Many of us awaken antagonism by our way of stating things; we have to distinguish between being persecuted for some notion of our own and being persecuted "for My sake."
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"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."
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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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"Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning."
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"Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man."
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"In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude."
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"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
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