"As however the ancients say that in case……" — Martin Chemnitz
"As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present."
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13 Quotes by Martin Chemnitz
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I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by…
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the…
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Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the…
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Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday,…
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In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by…
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For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between…
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The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.
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And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
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For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet…
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Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
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And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this…
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Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received…
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More Absolution Quotes
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one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
— R. D. Laing
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There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood…
— Frank Sinatra
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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.
— Laura Schlessinger
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Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee…
— Michael Foley
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Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and…
— Brian Evenson
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I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
— E L Doctorow
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines,…
— Lord Byron
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
— Germaine Greer
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When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
— Frank Sinatra
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
— Thomas Hobbes
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
— Oscar Wilde
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