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Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.
We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.
Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.
I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.
Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.
...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.
Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
By prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.
We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.
We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.
The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.