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Quotes by Theologian
"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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"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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"We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing."
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"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."
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"The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations."
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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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"If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality."
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"Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure."
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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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"Christians are usually sincere and well - intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast - food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of 'Christian' countries that tend to be as consumer - oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else - and often more so, I'm afraid."
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"I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process."
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"A lot of us pray as if prayer is really twisting the arm of God or convincing God to do something. We think by saying more words we'll talk God into it. We think, 'If I say it one more time, God will agree with me. That very attitude is an alienating attitude. It keeps us in the role of doing it 'right or often enough to convince an unready or unwilling God. Wrong, wrong, wrong!19 minutes ago"
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"We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses."
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"He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself."
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"The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture."
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"Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?"
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"Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb."
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"True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways."
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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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"We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
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"We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us."
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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
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"All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power."
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"The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service."
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"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."
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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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"Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come."
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"There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government."
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
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"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder."
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"My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome."
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"There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar."
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"Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing."
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"The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline."
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"Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God."
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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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"Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others."
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"Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners."
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"I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church."
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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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"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."
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"Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own."
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"Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism 'thinking' (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, 'with me' or 'against me, ' and most of the time you'll be wrong."
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"God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God."
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"It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth."
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"I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you."
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"At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives."
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"The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires."
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"Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force."
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