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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
Johann Arndt
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Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.
Pope Francis
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The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril.
Alfred Loisy
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I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.
Martin Luther
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Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
Henri de Lubac
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
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Our earthly possessions will indeed perish in the final wreck of all things; but let the ship perish, let all we have sink in the deep, if we may come "safe to land." From these storms and billows — these dangerous seas — these tempestuous voyages — may we all be brought at last, safe to heaven.
Albert Barnes
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But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute you. Why did he command these things? So that he might free you from hatred, sadness, anger and grudges, and might grant you the greatest possession of all, perfect love, which is impossible to possess except by the one who loves all equally in imitation of God.
Maximus the Confessor
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Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.
Simon Patrick
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The sun discovers atoms, though they be invisible by candle-light, yet that makes them dance naked in his beams.
Nathaniel Culverwell
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Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.
William Booth
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All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
Tryon Edwards
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From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.
Colin Gunton
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Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit we may derive therefrom. All wise men, therefore, agree that justice and profit are the two most powerful inducements to move our wills to any undertaking. Now, though men seek profit more frequently than justice, yet justice is in itself more powerful.
Louis of Granada
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The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".
Peter Leithart
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Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.
Friedrich von Hügel
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It is not necessary to seek truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church.
Irenaeus
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Religion is immediate self-consciousness. It liberates the individual from the determinative forces of society . ... It is effective only in individuals, where "in-dividuals" means whose who are undivided, that is, who are liberated from the psychological, social, and logical consequences of the division of labor in society and who actually live concretely and historically, unfettered by abstract norms.
Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt
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The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.
James Emery White
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
Hans Küng
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It is not necessary that these hypotheses should be true, or even probably; but it is enough if they provide a calculus which fits the observations.
Andreas Osiander
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No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.
Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
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If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.
John Chrysostom
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Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.
Matthew Fox
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Our noblest duty is to strive to reduce oppression, to be more [stringent] in our implementation of Islamic law... and to weaken the control of oppressive and tyrannical regimes over the oppressed. These [actions] can [hasten] the return of the Hidden Imam...
Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi
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