Inspirational Quotes quoted on TOL

nodelink

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The preacher who neglects to pray much must be very careless about his ministry. He cannot have comprehended his calling. He cannot have computed the value of a soul, or estimated the meaning of eternity. He must be a mere official, tempted into a pulpit because the piece of bread which belongs to the priest’s office is very necessary to him, or a detestable hypocrite who loves the praise of men, and cares not for the praise of God. He will surely become a mere superficial talker, best approved where grace is least valued and a vain show most admired. He cannot be one of those who plough deep and reap abundant harvests. He is a mere loiterer, not a laborer. As a preacher he has a name to live and is dead. He limps in his life like the lame man in the Proverbs, whose legs were not equal, for his praying is shorter than his preaching. - Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)

From: Heritage of great evangelical teaching : featuring the best of Martin Luther, John Wesley, Dwight L. Moody, C.H. Spurgeon and others. (1997). Nashville: Thomas Nelson - via Logos Bible Software
 
Buzzword

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"There is no single group of people more prejudiced than Bible-carrying small-town Christians."
-Rev. Mike Courtney

Didn't really feel this until I moved from one of the largest (by land area) metropolitan areas in the world to a town of less than 800 and started church-hunting.
 
Selaphiel

Selaphiel

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A. N. Whitehead on religion and science:

"A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -it is an oppurtunity.

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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory. This is one great reason for the utmost toleration of variety of opinion. Once and forever, this duty has been summed up in the words, "Let both grow together until the harvest".

-Whitehead (Science and the Modern World)

That approach to reconciling religious insight with scientific knowledge is something I try to make central when I think about theology and philosophy of religion.
 
way 2 go

way 2 go

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Originally Posted by Stripe

Giving up on what a small part of what the bible plainly teaches is preparation for giving up on all of what it teaches.
 
Charity

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way 2 go said:
Originally Posted by Stripe

Giving up on what a small part of what the bible plainly teaches is preparation for giving up on all of what it teaches.
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:) he was like a lamb preached to the slaughter, a king cut off from the living.
 
Selaphiel

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Read a nice passage in "The Crucified God" by Moltmann today:

"The dispute over the resurrection of Jesus is concerned with the question of righeousness in history. Does it belong to the nomos which finally gives each man his deserts, or does it belong to the law of grace as it was manifest by Jesus and in the resurrection of the crucified Christ? The message of the new righteousness which eschatological faith brings into the world says that in fact the executioners will not finally triumph over their victims. It also says that in the end the victims will not triumph over their executioners. The one will triumph who first died for the victims and then also for the executioners, and in so doing revealed a new righteousness which breaks through the vicious circles of hate and vengeance and which from the lost victims and executioners creates a new mankind with a new humanity. Only where righteousness becomes creative and creates right both for the lawless and for those outside the law, only where creative love changes what is hateful and deserving of hate, only where the new man is born who is neither oppressed nor oppresses others, can one speak of the true revolution of righteousness and of the righteousness of God."
 
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Buzzword

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"On the front of my house, there is an art deco door knocker, with a small silver plaque in the center. It contains just three words: Never Surrender Dreams."
-J. Michael Straczynski
 
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"Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle."
-Jon Acuff

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self."
-Ernest Hemingway

"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."
-L.R. Knost

“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world’s ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains at the back of it all.”
-John W. Gardner
 
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Buzzword

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Just finished reading Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers.

"Would you prefer for somebody else's son to die in the mud? You want us to win the war, but you apparently don't want to have your sons involved in the actual bloodshed. That's a strangely contradictory attitude. Somebody has to get in and kill the enemy. Somebody has to be in the infantry and the paratroopers. If the country all had your attitude, nobody would fight, everybody would be in the Quartermaster. And what kind of country would that be?"

"I cannot understand why you hope for a quick end of the war. Unless we take the horror of battle to Germany itself, unless we fight in their villages, blowing up their houses, smashing open their wine cellars, killing some of their livestock for food, unless we litter their streets with horribly rotten German corpses as was done in France, the Germans will prepare for war, unmindful of its horrors. Defeat must be brought into Germany itself before this mess can come to a proper end; a quick victory now, a sudden collapse, will leave the countryside relatively intact and the people thirsty for revenge. I want the war to end as quickly as anybody wishes, but I don't the nucleus of another war left whole."

"I would rather starve to death as a bum in civilian life than be a private in the army."

-Private David Webster, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 101st Airborne
 
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Soul

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They Can Take the body but they can't take the soul, the young soul may sleep when the body is young, the soul consist of sufferings an justice. one might have a blazing heart, but few choose to sit by it forever, A soul is worth gold, when its active, a soul is only the value of print on paper when it can't contribute. Take care of your body its the only place your soul can live.
 
Charity

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"They always say time changes things" or someone moves things to change times. Craftiness shall wear out the saints! A time plus a time is like a old book of prophecy dividing the times, added to the end of new events!
 
rougueone

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Charity said:
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to ceal the future.
change is what terrifies power!
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change or control their minds cannot change anything.
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And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:1-3
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Our thinking must be changed (transformed) from old, ungodly ways of thinking into new, godly ways of thinking. What we know in our minds to be true ---forms a conviction in our hearts of that truth, and that conviction in our hearts translates into action. Therefore, we must first renew our minds.
 
brinny

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"Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less." ~-Ken Blanchard​
 
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