Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.
There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.
I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.
Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin
Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus
I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.
The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.
The Israelis have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.
Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.
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.