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All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night. Jakob Bohme

God Day World Christ Men Strife He Day And Night Concerning Cometh Another Understand Hand Heaven Wherein Hence Right Night Right Hand

God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul. Jakob Bohme

God Property Anger Soul Fire Devil Wicked Neither See Wrath Sees Also Does His False According Essentially Rebellious

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence. James Hal Cone

Truth Intelligence Color Knows Appeals

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. Johannes Tauler

Love Soul Other Everyone Guests Gifts Must Finds Remain Entry Outside He Occupied His Offering Often Cannot Gain Which Turn Therefore Away Things Desire

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. John Owen

World Sense Shame Takes Course Sinning Custom Away

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. John Tillotson

Great Mind Argument Able Great Mind Bear Provocation Forgive Reason

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Success Failure Would Would-Be Did Children Realise Eternity Then Us

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

God Saved Virtue Everyone No-One He

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. Karl Barth

God Faith Ideology Nothing Status Status Quo Revelation Quo Which

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended. Kevin DeYoung

Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want. Kevin DeYoung

God Him Just Want Ask Us Should Teach

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. Martin Chemnitz

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Mary Baker Eddy

Matter Spirit Temporal Unreal Real Eternal

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Mary Baker Eddy

Experience Fear Mind Made Mortal Disease So-Called Manifest Body Medical

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections. Mary Baker Eddy

Home Earth Boundary Spot Dearest Affections Centre Should

Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process. Mary Daly

Good Journey Culture Women Good And Evil Space Evil Free Myth Possessed About Through Naming Within Becoming Feminine Springing Deception Maze Process Which Breaking Describing

Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.' Mary Daly

Creative Women Losing Giving Own Think Virginia Virginia Woolf Took Status Classroom Taken Message Call Without Always Office Patriarchy Woolf Room Teach Now Away Needed

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes. Miroslav Volf

Love Think Other Beneficent Benevolent Independent Toward Command Person Order Anyone To Love Them Agree Believes Christians Need

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. Miroslav Volf

Work God Faith Needs Game Business World Doctors Garbage Christian Rules Spheres Collectors Inserted Stay-At-Home Most Executives Idle Scientists Provide Artists Story Which Moms Dads Basic Christian Faith Played

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world. Miroslav Volf

World Understanding About Mending Only Theology

Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders. Norman Geisler

Great Made Miracles Superior Rose Other Hundreds Immediate Hundreds Of Years Claimed Out Religious Religious Leaders Followers Only Prophecy Advance He Leaders True Dead His Years Did Died Literally Comparison Jesus

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