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Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.
I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.
The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.
You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.
Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?
I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.
The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.
...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.
I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.
I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.
People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"
The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.