Quotations of the day

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"Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape Him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite, the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate." - Karl Barth-

"Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God and man, and, by exposing it, bridges it." ~Karl Barth

 

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"Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven." ~Adam Clarke

 

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"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects." ~ Nikola Tesla

 

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The God of Un

"Mankind lives in a world of limited. God our Father will eclipse our limited with His Unlimited." ~David E. Johnson

 

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"If we have the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do." ~ Dwight L. Moody

"To love someone means to see him as God intended him." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

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“The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace–bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the Gospel–after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps–suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started…Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, not the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case.” ~ Robert Farrar Capon

"No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do." - Karl Barth

 

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"True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers. ~John Shelby Spong

“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”
― John Shelby Spong,

 

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"The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!" ~Adam Clarke

 

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"Christ and His cross are not separable in this life; howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. ~ Samuel Rutherford

 

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“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”
― John Shelby Spong,

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John Shelby Spong knew nothing about the Church.

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"The cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we must get near enough for the sparks to fall on us," ~John R.W. Stott

 

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See? What an idiot.

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"The cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we must get near enough for the sparks to fall on us," ~John R.W. Stott

You can't get any closer to Christ than His Real Presence in the Eucharist.

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“Let us constantly bear in mind the rules and principles of Christian warfare; namely, that we conquer by yielding, we receive by giving, we overcome by being defeated, and we live by dying. There is no other way except the way of the Cross.” ~ George Warnock

 

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"I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate." ~Adam Clarke

"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation but false progress." ~ Sydney J. Harris

 

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"The confessing church needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists, but receiving a gift with open hands." -Brennan Manning-

 

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The Beatitudes Of Jesus

"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.

"You're blessed when you're content with just who you are - no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.

"You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'care-full,' you find yourselves cared for.

"You're blessed when you get your inside world - your mind and heart - put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.

You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family.

“You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom.

“Not only that—count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable. You can be glad when that happens—give a cheer, even!—for though they don’t like it, I do! And all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble. ~MSG