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Quotes by Theologian
"Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you."
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"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."
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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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"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings."
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"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door."
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"As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love tht sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love."
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"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."
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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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"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."
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"The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result."
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"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."
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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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"Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise."
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"It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."
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"The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics."
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"All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit."
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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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"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."
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"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
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"Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest."
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"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity."
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"To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ."
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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."
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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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"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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"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
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"God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter."
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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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"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith."
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"The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God."
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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."
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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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"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."
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"An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects."
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"Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence."
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"Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action."
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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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"The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'"
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"A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises."
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"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."
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"Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice."
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"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own."
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"In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity."
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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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