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Quotes by Theologian
"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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"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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"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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"Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice."
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"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
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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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"In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity."
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"Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us."
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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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"One thing I know: 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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"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself."
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"I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution."
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"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years."
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"No God without a world, and no world without God."
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"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning."
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"God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter."
God,
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"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
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"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."
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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 true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others."
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"How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God."
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"Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God."
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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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"When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character."
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"The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk."
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"Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity."
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"Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation."
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"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."
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"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
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"I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort."
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"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
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"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."
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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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"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith."
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"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive."
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
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"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."
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"There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized."
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"I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson."
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"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
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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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"For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves."
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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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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
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"Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life."
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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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"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."
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