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Quotes by Theologian
"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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"Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us."
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"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us."
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"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock."
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"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself."
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"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need."
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"Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men."
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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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"Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people."
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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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"Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature. You can fill in the names here with your own political disaster story. But just remember, there is a symbiosis between immature groups and immature leaders, I am afraid, which is why both Plato and Jefferson said democracy was not really the best form of government. It is the safest. A truly wise monarch would probably be the most effective at getting things done."
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"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
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"Lord, whatsoever this day may bring, Thy name be praised. Be gracious unto me and help me. Grant me strength to bear whatsoever Thou dost send, And let not fear overrule me. I trust Thy grace, and commit my life wholly into Thy Hands. Whether I live or whether I die, I am with Thee and Thou art with me. Lord, I wait for Thy salvation, and for the coming of Thy Kingdom. Amen."
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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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"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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"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God."
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"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."
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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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"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."
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"I believe that in the end the truth will conquer."
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"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."
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"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
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"There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized."
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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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"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
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"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
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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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"Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living."
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"Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character."
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"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."
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"God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen."
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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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"The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost to the point of making us sick. Do you know a work of literature written in the last, say, fifteen years that you think has any lasting quality? I don't. It is partly idle chatter, partly propaganda, partly self-pitying sentimentality, but there is no insight, no ideas, no clarity, no substance and almost always the language is bad and constrained. On this subject I am quite consciously a laudator temporis acti."
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"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."
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"When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'."
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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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"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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"In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can."
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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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"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."
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"In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country."
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"Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious."
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"By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb."
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"The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul."
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