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Quotes by Theologian
"You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed."
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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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"Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others."
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"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."
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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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"Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world."
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"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."
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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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"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
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"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'"
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"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today."
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"Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace."
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"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."
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
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"Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters."
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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
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"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."
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"The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion."
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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
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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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"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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"We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are, it may be an indication of how wicked we really are."
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"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."
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"The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of."
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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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"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
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"Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families."
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"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
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"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."
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"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years."
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"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning."
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"The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time."
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"The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being."
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"A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man."
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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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"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
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"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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"An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the god of his own invention, or the true and living God moulds the human form in his image. There must be a complete transformation, a 'metamorphosis' (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18), if man is to be restored to the image of God."
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"We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask."
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"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
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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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"Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark."
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"Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."
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"No God without a world, and no world without God."
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"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."
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