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Quotes by Theologian
"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."
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"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
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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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"The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all."
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"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
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"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."
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"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends."
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"Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body."
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"Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself."
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"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
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"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."
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"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith."
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"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."
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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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"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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"Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there."
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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
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"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
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"Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise."
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"History is the story of events, with praise or blame."
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"The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study."
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"Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud."
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"Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility."
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"Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect."
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"However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights."
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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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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
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"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 sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
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"If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors."
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"God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also."
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"However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing."
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"Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace."
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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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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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"That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact."
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"We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away."
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"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
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"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."
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"Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing."
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"Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God."
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"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."
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"The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love."
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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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"There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance."
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