50 quotes found
“...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.”
“A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.”
“In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justi...”
“All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one's soul, even experienced vicariously in the body of another who is l...”
“Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.”
“The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.”
“Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.”
“If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. The...”
“The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.”
“As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath the same sap for kind that the Arm of the tree hath, and it all comes from the same root. So though...”
“Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.”
“One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed”
“Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life hath been...”
“All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.”
“He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.”
“We owe God a "double debt" incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a "daring debt" because we challe...”
“Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.”
“If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the ...”
“Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher”
“On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way?”
