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Quotes by Theologian
"It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business."
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"The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands."
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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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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"The desire we so often hear expressed today for "episcopal figures, "priestly men, "authoritative personalities springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive."
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"Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate."
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"Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer."
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"Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith."
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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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"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."
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"The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts."
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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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"Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community."
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"No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it."
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"God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter."
God,
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"A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing."
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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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"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
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"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."
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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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"Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space."
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"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
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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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"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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"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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"Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity."
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"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
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"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."
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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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"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting."
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"Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
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"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold."
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"This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency."
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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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"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
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"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."
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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
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"History is the story of events, with praise or blame."
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"Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind."
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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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"If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song."
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"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."
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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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"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
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