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Quotes by Theologian
"God says Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours."
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."
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"How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?"
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"The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us."
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"The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen."
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"When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light."
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"Christ is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality."
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"By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are."
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"We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right."
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"Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial."
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"Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer."
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"Principles are only tools in the hands of God they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful."
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"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life."
Life,
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"God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God."
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"Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom."
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"Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them."
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"Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life time unenriched by experience creative endeavor enjoyment and suffering."
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"Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness."
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"The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience."
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"God did not direct His call to Isaiah- Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude."
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"Paul has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the responsibility of the Christian community towards the State."
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"Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence."
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"When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again."
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"Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it-good, but not best."
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"Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you."
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"Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more."
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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
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"The doctor of the future will be oneself."
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"Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them."
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"The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ."
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"Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own."
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"What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities."
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"Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence of others may be put aside where in all simplicity and soberness the common, brotherly prayer is lifted to God by one of the brethren. But likewise all comment and criticism must cease whenever words of prayer howsoever halting are offered in the name of Jesus Christ. It is in fact the most normal thing in the common Christian life to pray together."
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"The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day."
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