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Quotes by Theologian
"God is best known in not knowing him."
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"This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency."
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
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"God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation."
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"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
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"Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam."
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"The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me."
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"The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time."
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"If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it."
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"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith."
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"Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space."
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"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
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"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."
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"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
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"Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man."
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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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"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
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"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."
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"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."
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"Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much."
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"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting."
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"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them."
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"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
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"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."
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"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
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"It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people."
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"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself."
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"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
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"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning."
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"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
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"The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death."
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"When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character."
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"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been."
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"The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them."
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"To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith."
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"Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out."
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"Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before."
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