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Quotes by Theologian
"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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"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends."
49
"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
49
"Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families."
49
"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock."
49
"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."
49
"A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."
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"The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time."
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"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."
God,
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"Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action."
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"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
Will,
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"Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man."
49
"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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"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."
48
"I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court."
48
"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
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"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."
48
"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."
48
"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
48
"Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him whether the heart is full or empty."
48
"Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters."
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"Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched."
47
"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."
47
"I believe that in the end the truth will conquer."
47
"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."
47
"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."
47
"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
47
"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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"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."
47
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
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"The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being."
47
"If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it."
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"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today."
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"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
47
"Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace."
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"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings."
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"Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death."
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"The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world."
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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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"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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"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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"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
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"The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God."
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