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Quotes by Theologian
"That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact."
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"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."
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"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."
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"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."
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"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."
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"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
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"Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much."
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"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
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"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."
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"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another."
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"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality."
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"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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"The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper."
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"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."
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"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes."
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"But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now."
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"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold."
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"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."
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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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"Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark."
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"I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend."
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"The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes."
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"If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth."
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"The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body."
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"There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized."
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"No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it."
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"If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine."
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"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
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"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent."
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"Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him."
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"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."
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"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."
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"If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be."
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"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
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"Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God."
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"Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ."
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"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."
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"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!"
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"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation."
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"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."
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"The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New."
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"Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite."
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"Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise."
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"Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice."
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"When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality."
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