76 quotes found
“Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal...”
“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.”
“Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.”
“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.”
“Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cl...”
“If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.”
“Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? ”
“How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!”
“Death was far more certain than God.”
“In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.”
“Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.”
“Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as...”
“Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.”
“Whether we admit it or not, as people of faith, we sift our theology through Scripture, Church history and tradition, our reason, and our own experience. Most Christians, even the most committed of...”
“This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it ...”
“In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there....”
“If I speak in the tongues of Reformers and of professional theologians, and I have not personal faith in Christ, my theology is nothing but the noisy beating of a snare drum. And if I have analytic...”
“Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being ...”
“I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No.""Then why do we come here?"He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me,...”
“Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.”
