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Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.
Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.
Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I
He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.
God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.
Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.