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Quotes by Theologian
"The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others."
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"Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity."
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"If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all."
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"If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality."
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"It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery."
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"As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification."
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"THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky - journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self - worth."
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"To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things."
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"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace."
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"O endure the cross is not tragedy, it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ."
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."
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"Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ."
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"Human nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics He makes no passionless saints."
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"My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified."
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"From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived."
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"Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship."
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"Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity."
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"Whenever the conviction of God's Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey, but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God."
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"Prayer is not an exercise it is the life."
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"To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness."
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"Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus."
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"Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you."
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"No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus' sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go."
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"God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word."
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"There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are."
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"It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ."
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"His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service."
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"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."
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"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God."
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"God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past."
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"Remember whose you are and whom you serve."
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"O heavenly Father,protect and bless all thingsthat have breath: guard themfrom all evil and let them sleep in peace."
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"Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works."
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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
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"Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to his call: First obey, do the external works, let go of what binds you, give up what is separating you from God's will! Do not say, I do not have the faith for that. You will not have it so long as you remain disobedient, so long as you will not take that first step. Do not say, I have faith, so I do not have to take the first step. You do not have faith, because and so long as you will not take that first step. Instead, you have hardened yourself in disbelief under the appearance of humble faith."
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"If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart."
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"The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil."
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"God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and by themselves. They enter the community of Christians with their demands, set up their own law, and judge one another and even God accordingly."
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"The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time."
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"We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here."
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"After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might."
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"Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties."
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"Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in you will work on a wrong level all day but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God."
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"We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself."
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"The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ."
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"We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well."
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"Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God."
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"We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself."
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