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Quotes by Theologian
"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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"You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed."
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"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
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"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes."
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"In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity."
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"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
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"The most powerful moral influence is example."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
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"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."
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"If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants."
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"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."
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"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
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"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."
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"There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized."
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"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."
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"Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest."
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"How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God."
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"Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people."
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"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."
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"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
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"Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in community while fleeing from themselves are misuing it to indulge in empty talk and distraction, no matter how spiritual this idle talk and distraction may appear...it is precisely such misuse of community that creates deadly isolation of human beings."
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"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God."
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"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."
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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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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
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"Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain."
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"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
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"A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."
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"The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things."
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"I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did."
Sin,
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"No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it."
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"Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men."
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"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."
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"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
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"God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen."
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"As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples."
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"Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation."
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"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."
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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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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
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"Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched."
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"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips."
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"God is best known in not knowing him."
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