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I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider...

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Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe a...

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The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. N...

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If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to p...

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They know they dare not have their stuff stripped down to plain words. These Bishops and parsons wit...

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christian...

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What does hanging on a cross for twenty-four hours mean to a man who has no children,' I said, 'espe...

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If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

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Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a Wife

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine co...

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The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of co...

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If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transc...

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The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the...

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Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open ...

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What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

Nevertheless, in a passage that is very often commented upon because it summarizes the entire salvif...

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For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute o...

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The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in...

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Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now cho...

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To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite rea...

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In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity...

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God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be pr...

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Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable ...

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It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as lit...

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Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps...

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What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy whic...

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It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can ...

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In Tom's hurried exchange, he had not forgotten to transfer his cherished Bible to his pocket. It wa...

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«It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,...

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The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met.""You've met God?"...

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God will forgive me. That's his business.

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly...

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Henry David ThoreauA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purp...

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And all at once he saw before him a precipice, as it were without bottom. He was a patrician, a mili...

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If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

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Horatius BonarEverlasting Righteousness

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and h...

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Horatius BonarEverlasting Righteousness

How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And se...

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Hell, hell fire, the damnation of hell, eternal damnation, the resurrection of the damnation, everla...

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Without conversion of heart we cannot serve God on earth. We have naturally neither faith, nor fear,...

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Let there be no mistake in your mind as to the special character of the man who has come to Christ, ...

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Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be ...

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Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write not...

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We live in a day of abounding vagueness and indistinctness on doctrinal subjects in religion. Now, i...

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Christ is to the souls of men what the sun is to the world. He is the center and source of all spiri...

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That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against....We must spread out all our case b...

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Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone b...

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Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "l...

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J. C. RyleJohn (Expository Thoughts on the Gospels): Vol. 1

It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about he...

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God almighty, Franny," he said. "If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, ...

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As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with ...

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It is not enough for a population or a section of the population to have Christian faith and be doci...

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... Dur...

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Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... be...

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Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... be...

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The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't f...

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At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive...

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I am convinced that in the present time, in spite of the difficulties man has to meet another in a s...

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Flowing from this union, source of a plenitude of joy, the love of the couple reveals itself through...

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Jeff- "A Hanukkah tradition is making potato pancakes. For something a little different, use a sweet...

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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I...

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You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if ...

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As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as i...

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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and dep...

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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his ...

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O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

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The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pill...

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How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?”Answer: “Because I am baptiz...

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Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

For if we see that the sun, in sending forth its rays upon the earth, to generate, cherish, and invi...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then ...

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Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed,...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, "The foundation of our philosophy...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptu...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to ...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

. . . have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the...

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John DeweyIntelligence in the Modern World

The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say...

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John Gray (philosopher)Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Chris...

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John Gray (philosopher)Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but und...

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John Henry NewmanParochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over ...

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…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or ...

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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether foo...

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Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of meeAll he could have; I made him just and right,Sufficient to ...

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John MiltonThe Complete Poems and Major Prose

Father, I do acknowledge and confessThat I this honor, I this pomp have broughtTo Dagon, and advanc’...

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John MiltonThe Complete Poems and Major Prose

Your mind was made to know and love God.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

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Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue...

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Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a re...

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The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settli...

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On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnif...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist