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Roland Allen

English Clergyman

Born: Dec 29, 1868

Died: Jun 9, 1947

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Related authors: George Whitefield John Wesley Matthew Henry Sydney Smith Thomas Becket Thomas Fuller William Inge William Pollard

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response. Roland Allen

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. Roland Allen

Spiritual Men Met Apprehension Cried Those Aloud Were Intellectual Moved Them Much Apostles Whom Illumination Need

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. Roland Allen

Life Needs Trials Experience People Church Men Understanding Own Living Difficulties Our Touch Sharing Clergy Also Close Personal Personal Experience Ordinary Ordinary Life Ordinary Men Among

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls. Roland Allen

Religion Christ Preaching Own Duty Our Consideration Morality Throne Allow Absolve Gospel Souls His Heathen Us Really

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them. Roland Allen

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