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Quotes by Theologian
"For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be."
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"The ego hates losing ' even to God."
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"Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory."
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"The people who know God well - mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator."
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"I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic."
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"Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree."
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"The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right."
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"The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It's not the gathering of the saved."
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"It is crucial that Jesus is led by the Spirit. There are two wildernesses, two darknesses in the spiritual journey. One you go into by your own stupidity, by your sin, blindness, ignorance and mistakes. We all do that. But there's another darkness. The holy darkness is the darkness that God leads us into, through and beyond. This is a necessary darkness for the journey. In a certain sense, God's darkness is a much better teacher than light. There comes a time when you have to either go deeper into faith or you will turn back, when you have to live without knowing or you lose faith altogether. So we have the Spirit leading Jesus into the wilderness, to face the essential darkness."
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"Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice."
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"He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers."
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"Custom is second nature."
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"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows."
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"In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives."
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"Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion."
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"For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity."
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"Wealth and want equally harden the human heart."
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"A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one."
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"A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt."
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"All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain."
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"It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities."
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"I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process."
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"Das GlA1?4ck ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt."
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"One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway. We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking. The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality."
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"The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way."
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"We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses."
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"Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job and it will never be done unless we do it."
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"Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls."
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"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."
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"Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it."
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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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"You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life."
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"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."
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"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
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"There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it."
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"Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages."
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"The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres."
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"Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do."
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"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."
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"The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service."
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"As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it."
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"What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism."
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"Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them."
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"Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing."
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"It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet."
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"Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here."
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"It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity."
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"Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy."
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