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Quotes by Theologian
"Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned."
70
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
70
"Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture."
67
"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
God,
66
"It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us."
66
"It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart."
65
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
65
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
65
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
65
"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."
63
"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality."
63
"We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins."
62
"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."
62
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
62
"All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less."
62
"Jealousy is the grave of affection."
62
"Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character."
62
"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
61
"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."
60
"When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only."
60
"Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us."
59
"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."
58
"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
58
"Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain."
58
"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."
58
"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."
58
"He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory."
57
"Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal."
57
"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."
Past,
57
"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
56
"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."
56
"However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing."
56
"The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them."
56
"Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing."
56
"Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love."
55
"I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it."
55
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
55
"The most powerful moral influence is example."
55
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
55
"As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples."
55
"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."
55
"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."
54
"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."
54
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