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We were fortunate his brief psychic vision distracted him from what his fingertips could have told h...

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Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't ...

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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Gideon conquers, the church conquers, we conquer, because faith conquers. But the victory belongs no...

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Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that ...

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If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, p...

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The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make thin...

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That this is really the case was made plain to me by the questions asked me, mostly by young men, ab...

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Dorothy L. SayersLetters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine

If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any ...

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Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, a...

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Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are relat...

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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of r...

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Frederick BuechnerWishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work.

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-sp...

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To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of ...

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To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie aga...

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Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in th...

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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made ...

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Death was far more certain than God.

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Graham GreeneThe Quiet American

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is...

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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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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

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

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Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of know...

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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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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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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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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necess...

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If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible t...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time ex...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

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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No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the...

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Jacques EllulAnarchy and Christianity

For when man is faced with a curse he answers, "I'll take care of my problems." And he puts everythi...

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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

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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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rej...

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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

But the Lord often leaves his servants, not only to be annoyed by the violence of the wicked, but to...

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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

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't...

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Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees y...

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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...

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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...

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It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...

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I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by t...

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I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

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John Piper (artist)Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A...

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John Piper (artist)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

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John Piper (artist)John Calvin: And His Passion for the Majesty of God

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and sufferi...

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John Piper (artist)Suffering and the Sovereignty of God

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theol...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't...

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Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees y...

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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...

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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...

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It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...

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I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by t...

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We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

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John Piper (artist)John Calvin: And His Passion for the Majesty of God

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

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John Piper (artist)Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A...

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John Piper (artist)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and sufferi...

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John Piper (artist)Suffering and the Sovereignty of God

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theol...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't...

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Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees y...

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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...

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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...

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It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...

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I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by t...

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I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

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John Piper (theologian)Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A...

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J
John Piper (theologian)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

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John Piper (theologian)John Calvin: And His Passion for the Majesty of God

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and sufferi...

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J
John Piper (theologian)Suffering and the Sovereignty of God

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theol...

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J
John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't...

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Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees y...

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It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...

Show More

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...

Show More

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...

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