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John Clayton Quotes
John Clayton
English
Clergyman
Born:
Oct 9
,
1709
Christ
Christians
God
People
Thanksgiving
Time
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Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
John Clayton
Thankful
God
Time
Thanksgiving
Appreciation
World
Giving
Blessed
Christian
System
See
Emphasis
Another
How
Gets
Just
Being
Expressing
Buying
Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
John Clayton
Thanksgiving
Christ
Accord
Very
Themes
Much
Teachings
Season
Jesus
Jesus Christ
There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.
John Clayton
Thankful
People
Political
Be Thankful
Superiority
Instruction
Were
Nationalistic
Ethnic
Special
Chosen
Christians
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
John Clayton
God
Best
Exaggeration
Son
Complete
Worst
Possible
Fabrication
Divine
Original
Portrait
Jesus
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
John Clayton
Alone
Language
Approximately
Between
Were
English
English Language
Lives
Published
Jesus
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
John Clayton
Great
Creation
Minds
Worship
Great Minds
Could
Mythological
Studies
He
Merely
New
Real
Issue
Testament
Been
Questions
Dominant
New Testament
Century
Many
Whom
Christians
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.
John Clayton
Writing
Jews
Atheists
Pens
About
Only
Taking
Also
Up
Communists
Agnostic
Paint
Portrait
Jesus
Christians
Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?
John Clayton
God
Matter
Believe
Say
More
Always
Been
Than
Any
Reasonable
Why
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
John Clayton
Life
Hope
Prayer
Mistakes
Those
Out
Some
Following
Pointing
Part
Make
Were
Fervent
Same
Same Mistakes
Paths
Might
Who
Exposing
Things
Early
Early Life
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
John Clayton
Death
God
Time
You
Suffering
People
Problems
Will
College
Young
Every
Every Time
Say
He
Merciful
Almost
How
Am
Tragedies
Campus
Happen
Explain
Loving
Young People
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?
John Clayton
Faith
History
Christ
Church
Worship
About
Divine
He
New
Dead
Read
Lord
Real
Lords
Testament
New Testament
Same
Really
Whom
Jesus
Raised
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
John Clayton
Christmas
World
Competition
Complicated
Christ
Guilt
Focus
Pressure
Other
Birth
Members
Tries
Outdo
Layers
Doing
Imposed
Denominational
Gets
Program
Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
John Clayton
Gift
Challenge
Too
Puppy
More
Than
Just
Holidays
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