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Quotes by Theologian
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
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"God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair."
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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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"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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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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"See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security."
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"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
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"Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he."
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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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"Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us."
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"It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name."
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"The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God."
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"We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea."
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"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."
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"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."
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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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"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."
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"My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is."
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"Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools."
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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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"It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world."
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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
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"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."
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"Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal."
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"Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature."
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"Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people."
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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
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"We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us."
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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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"If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be."
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"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true."
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"Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves."
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"Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!"
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"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."
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"As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins."
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"Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety."
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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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"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."
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"As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor. Never reserve anything; never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives."
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"Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves."
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"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."
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"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old."
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"When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'."
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"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
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"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in."
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"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."
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