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The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.
Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.
We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.
What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.
For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.
... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.
Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?
The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.