Roland Allen Quotes

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• In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind…
• Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
• There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound…
• We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.
• What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the…
• We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians…
• The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable…
• Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out…
• I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable…
• The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.
• The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind…
• Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person…
• If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing…
• Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that…
• To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God…
• The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men…
• Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in…
• It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never…
• Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary…

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