"If we allow the consideration of heathen morality……" — Roland Allen
"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 Christ from His throne in our own souls."
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19 Quotes by Roland Allen
Roland Allen has 19 quotes on this site.
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In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their…
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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
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There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at…
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We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.
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What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but…
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We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to…
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The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the…
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Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He…
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I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use…
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The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.
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The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What…
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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I…
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing…
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do…
— Steven Pinker
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— Shekhar Kapur
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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its…
— Anthony Kennedy
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Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can…
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Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a…
— Camille Paglia
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We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid…
— Jean Baudrillard
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— Janette Turner Hospital
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