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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. John Calvin

Good Grace Disagree Will Evil Absent Faculty He Does Augustine Teaches Choose Reason Assistance

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. John Tillotson

Great Ignorance Ruin Causes Mankind Two

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power. John Wycliffe

God Power Nothing Shall Abuse Woe Us Hereafter

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. Karl Barth

Christ Church Should Jesus Jesus Christ

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. Karl Rahner

Freedom Maturity Every High Morality Compulsion True Like True Freedom How Doing Often Should Grow Found

As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us. Kevin DeYoung

Life Death God Faith Grace Christ Church Conviction Saved Saves Our Pleasing Ministry Object Something Through Resurrection Protestant Were Pastor Anything Centers Us Whole Believing

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy is the grave of affection. Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy Affection Grave

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. Oswald Chambers

Character Christ Disposition Saint Manifested Means Jesus Jesus Christ

Astonishment is the root of philosophy. Paul Tillich

Philosophy Astonishment Root

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God. Richard Foster

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. Rowan Williams

God Marriage Echoes Absolute Between Partners Because Female Faithfulness Covenant His Male Different Place Persons Speaks Radically Unique Chosen

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art. Said Nursi

Art Beauty Finely Object Points Name Attributes Source Craftsman Craftsmanship Which Manifested Worked

What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world? Said Nursi

Future Thoughts Heart World Whatever Down Other Saving Secret Our Waves Earth Countless Know Most Occurs Than Heavens Establishing Subtle Agent Us Who Illuminate Creator Suffocating Hereafter

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.' Said Nursi

Work Saying Me You Corruption Long First Live Others Ease Sayings Hunger Eat Morals Source Spur Die Revolutions Just Full Origin Base Suffer Hardship Second Two

People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter. Said Nursi

People World Rest Miserable Power Mercy Master Desolate Those Recognize See Rely Take Exchange Bewildered Felicity Discover His Owner Refuge Place Transformed Then Who Hereafter

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. Theodore Parker

Time You Will Sacrifice Duty Others Laugh Eternity Desire Rejoice

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. Thomas Aquinas

Divine Demands Disclosure Surpassing Truths Salvation Human Reason

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