“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray”
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“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray”
“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ”
“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments”
“There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God”
“However many blessings we expect from God, his infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts”
“When it is a question of God's almighty spirit, never say "I can't"”
“What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith”
“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth”
“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”
“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages”
“The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls”
“Christianity is not only confirmed by miracles, but is in itself, in its very essence, a miraculous religion”
“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being”
“The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me”
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried”
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair”
“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"”
“We are separated from God on two sides; the fall separates us from Him, the tree of ife separates Him from us. ”
“And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray”
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever”