Cor Quotes
47 quotes by 38 authors
-
The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean…
— Francis Turretin
-
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2…
— John Stott
-
The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can and must believe,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
-
The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its fountainhead. The Eucharist…
— Pope John Paul II
-
It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands…
— Carl Jung
-
One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and that…
— Merrill C. Tenney
-
Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be…
— Hugh W. Pinnock
-
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
-
Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning heart - and…
— Brené Brown
-
...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable…
— Pope Dionysius
-
Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that…
— John Cassian
-
There is One God and One Mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ (cf. I Tim. 2:5). For He still pleads even now…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
-
There have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through Whom the generation of the birth of believers takes place, and…
— Gregory of Nyssa
-
... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
-
...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
-
No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to come, 'know as…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
-
The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be temperate to the…
— John of Kronstadt
-
...the grace of the Spirit takes possession of the quiet soul, and gives it a taste of the unspeakable good things to come, which no…
— Gregory Palamas
-
Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished by the grace…
— John of Kronstadt
-
Have we forgotten our calling? (2 Cor. 5:19-20) Remember that your first and foremost calling is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that…
— Kay Arthur
Who Wrote These Cor Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 47 Cor Quotes, led by these top contributors: