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My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins

The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

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