Quotes by clergymen

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Aristocratic Slavery
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out. Archibald Alexander
God You Rebellion Christ Will Black Long Repentance Believe Out Cast Shall Catalog Sincere How Lord Lord Jesus Lord Jesus Christ However Continue Sins May Turn Your Now Ever Jesus Jesus Christ
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate. Archibald Alexander
Time You Opportunities Will Delay Enter Strive Foot Never Soon Over None Were Sinner Than Afford Aged Then Strait Your Less Now Grave Gate
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. Archibald Alexander
Men Else Consists Morality More Primarily Motives Affections Accountable Than Anything Anything Else
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation. Archibald Alexander
Heart Will Evil Plead Pleading Valid Our Attempt Never Instead Sin Excuse Sinful Condemnation Very Being Justify Apology Ground Acts
The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers. Baha'u'llah
Strangers Unity Tabernacle Hath Another Been Regard Raised
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him. Baha'u'llah
He Unto Him Verily Who Near
Let us remind ourselves that if we are to be our Lord's disciples, we must take up his Cross and follow him. Basil Hume
Our Ourselves Must Follow Cross Take Remind Him Disciples Lord His Up Us Let Us
Our response, our attitude, depends on our realisation of God's attitude toward us. If I experience love or have experienced it, this is the means whereby I can explore the mystery of God's love. Basil Hume
Love Attitude God Experience Our Response Mystery Toward Depends Experienced Whereby Realisation Us Means Explore
It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come. Basil Hume
Prayer First Drawn More Come Because Pray Begin Taste Often Then Desire
In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God's response is outside prayer. And often, we do not link up an outside response with the effort we put into prayer. Basil Hume
God Prayer Mistake Response Outside Put Opinion Link Up Expect Effort Often In My Opinion
It is axiomatic that the Cross we get is the one we most dislike: we would choose any other. But it is equally true that the Cross which is ours is the one Christ wants us to bear. Basil Hume
Christ Other Ours Would Cross Bear True Most Equally Get Any Wants Which Dislike Us Choose
What did our Lord do by his Passion, Death, and Resurrection? He bridged that gulf which exists between God and man, a gulf which can only be bridged by him. Basil Hume
Death God Man Passion Our Our Lord Gulf Only Resurrection He Between Him Lord His Exists Did Which
It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of confidence in his love and mercy. Basil Hume
Love God Confidence Mercy Healthy Say Recognise Lead Am His Sinner Yes Turn Us Should Full
The devil took advantage of Christ's hunger to tempt him to limit his concern to the relief of human need. These are vital concerns, but they cannot be the sole concern of the Church. We need daily bread; we need, too, a reason for living, a sense of purpose, a vision. Basil Hume
Daily Vision Christ Church Devil Sense Living Too Took Sole Hunger Relief Vital Tempt Purpose Advantage Concern Him Concerns Limit His Human Bread Cannot Reason Daily Bread Need
It's one thing to see the suffering and dying on the television screen and quite another to be there and experience it. You cannot look into the eyes of a starving child and yourself remain the same. Basil Hume
You Suffering Eyes Experience Yourself Starving On-Screen Television One Thing See Remain Look Another Child Same Quite Screen Dying Cannot Thing
Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so. Basil Hume
Life Big Nothing Living Think Sight City About Tempting Feature Almost Big City Affected Expected Done Cannot Little Centre Should Working Even Homeless Streets
Know how to 'cling' to him in prayer, and then you will see the face of Christ more clearly in those whom you are called to serve. Basil Hume
Prayer You Christ Will Face Those See More Clearly Know Him How Cling Then Whom Serve
I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage. Bede Griffiths
Alone Me Marriage Mother Father Think Having Taking Over Sort Female Revealing Male Itself Gradually
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men. Bede Griffiths
Freedom Obedience Responsibility Men Radical Detachment Self Most Principle Makes Us Root Reason
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. Bede Griffiths
You Mother Father Wife Everything Abandon Must One Thing Give Only Self Unconditionally Also Ready Material Up Human Children The One Thing Which Your Thing
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. Bede Griffiths
Love Me Surrender Experience Mother Made Overwhelming Waves Somehow Inspiration Had Sort Came Unexpected Quite Again Then Suddenly
I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me. Bede Griffiths
Life Time Me Age Long Long Time Dimension Sexual Seeking Had Opening Also Sort Am Feminine Been Discovering Up Itself Very Very Long Time Which Really Means Whole Now
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. Beilby Porteus
Calamities He Over Them Who Twice Suffers
God is shaking me. Benny Hinn
God Me Shaking
Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance. Benny Hinn
God Soul Saves Temporal Importance Heals Because Eternal Body
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