in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
Live with the gods.
Send
Religion
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
There are few with whom I can communicate so freely as with Pope. But Pope cannot bear every truth. He has a timidity which hinders the full exertion of his faculties, almost as effectually as bigotry cramps those of the general herd of mankind. But whoever is a genuine follower of truth keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader. And, my Lord, if it may be properly considered, it were infinitely better to remain possessed by the whole legion of vulgar mistakes, than to reject some, and, at the same time, to retain a fondness for others altogether as absurd and irrational. The first has at least a consistency, that makes a man, however erroneously, uniform at least; but the latter way of proceeding is such an inconsistent chimera and jumble of philosophy and vulgar prejudice, that hardly anything more ridiculous can be conceived.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
Send
A line by Thomas à Kempis which perhaps could be used as a motto sometime. He says of Paul: Therefore he turned everything over to God, who knows all, and defended himself solely by means of patience and humility. He did defend himself now and then so that the weak would not be offended by his silence.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
It is evident that the relation to God with which the Bible is concerned does not have its source in the purple depths of the subconscious, and cannot be identical with what the deep-sea psychical research of our day describes in the narrower or broader sense as libido fulfilment.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
At the beginning of all theological perception, research, and thought – and also of every theological statement – stands a quite specific amazement. Its lack in even the best theologian will threaten the heart of the entire enterprise, while even bad theologians are not a lost cause in their service and their duty, as long as they are still capable of amazement.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
I do not preach universal salvation, what I say is that I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
The universal intelligence puts itself in motion for every separate effect... or it puts itself in motion once, and everything else comes by way of a sequence in a manner; or individual elements are the origin of all things. In a word, if there is a God, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou be governed by it.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an established church which was not their church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That was the Irish question.
Send