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As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.
Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.
And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect
They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.
It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.
Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.
The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.