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So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.
Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.
Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts. It is not our prayer which moves the Lord Jesus. It is Jesus who moves us to pray.
To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.
Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.
It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.
To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.
I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then 'Let your light shine to all.' Miss no opportunity to do good.
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.