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Quotes by Theologian
"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing."
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"The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive."
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"Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!"
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"The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God."
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"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."
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"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."
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"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
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"The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable."
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"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."
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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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"The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard."
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"So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy."
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"Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses the conscience and brings him into the presence of God, it is not his relationship with men that bothers him, but his relationship with God."
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"Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman."
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"Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion."
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"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."
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"We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus."
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"May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner."
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"Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite."
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"For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him."
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"But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more."
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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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"You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything."
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"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes."
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"When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian."
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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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"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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"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."
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"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them."
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"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."
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"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love."
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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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"Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption."
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"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
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"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
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"Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life."
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"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."
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"When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer."
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"In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things."
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"Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit."
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"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
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"God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received."
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"Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people."
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"But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise."
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