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Quotes by Theologian
"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
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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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"I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success."
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"I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it."
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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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"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."
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"If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion."
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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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"Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors."
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"To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching."
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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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"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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"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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"Prayer is not only asking it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural and Jesus says "every one that asketh receiveth.""
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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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"I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona."
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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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"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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"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."
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"If we were never depressed we should not be alive, it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed."
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"Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never."
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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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"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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"God did not give you the spirit of cowardice."
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"Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality."
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"How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom."
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"There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life."
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"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."
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"Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."
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"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
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"It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's."
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"The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all."
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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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"For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man."
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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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"But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers."
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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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"In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be."
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"God is the King. In him exists all legal authority."
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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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"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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"If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self - improvement on our own terms."
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"But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere."
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"It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."
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