Erasmus Quote by E. M. Forster Download Open image “My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.” — E. M. Forster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Erasmus Giver Humanism Law Moses My motto St Paul
“Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“for Paul private belief and public confession of it - including baptism - go hand in hand.3 Both are needed for salvation.” — Michael J. Gorman Copy Share Image
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul. — William Archibald Spooner Copy Share Image
“We usually think of law leading us to gospel. And this is true—we see God’s standards, see our sin, and then see our need… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all, and record after, as the Bereans did… — Henry Smith Copy Share Image
“Christ is no Moses, no law-giver, no tyrant, but the Mediator for sins, the Giver of grace and life.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and… — Origen Copy Share Image
“Christianity, said Erasmus, has been made to consist not in loving one’s neighbor but in abstaining from butter and cheese during Lent.” — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“These are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“The law was good, Paul wrote, and its purpose vital. But its purpose was also temporary. Once Christ fulfilled the law, his followers would… — Matthew Vines Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
“But I am well aware of the excuse which men, ever ingenious in devising mischief to themselves as well as others, offer in extenuation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it while he… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image