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. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.
Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.
I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.
Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.
Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.
It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.
But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.
One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.