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Quotes by Theologian
"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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"Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it."
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"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian."
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"Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love."
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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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"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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"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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"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."
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"Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."
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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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"This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments."
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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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"It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects."
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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."
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"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith."
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"For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally."
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"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."
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"The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel."
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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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"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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"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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"God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also."
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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 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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"Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves."
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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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"When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh."
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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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"God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object."
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"To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith."
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"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."
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"May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner."
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"While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task."
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"Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above."
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"Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."
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"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery."
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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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"The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper."
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"The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time."
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"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."
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"Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart."
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