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Quotes by Theologian
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
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"Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence."
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"It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God."
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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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"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."
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"Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature. The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more surely and steadily will fellowship increase and grow from day to day as God pleases."
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"We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are, it may be an indication of how wicked we really are."
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"When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'."
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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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"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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"Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body."
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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 soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
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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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"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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"History is the story of events, with praise or blame."
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"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."
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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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"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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"To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence."
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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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"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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"Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men."
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"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
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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 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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"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
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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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"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery."
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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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"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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"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."
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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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"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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"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."
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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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"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
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"It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people."
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"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven."
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"If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident."
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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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