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- Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
- At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
- In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
- Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without…
- We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought…
- [Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself…
- We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
- Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
- God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can…
- Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
- Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the…
- So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred for…
- Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without…
- And seldom if ever do I leave the pulpit without a sense of partial failure, a mood of penitence, a cry to God for forgiveness,…
- We must never think of salvation as a kind of transaction between God and us in which He contributes grace and we contribute faith. For…
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi