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"Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear."
"Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this."
"The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it."
"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian."
"All of a Christian's life is one of repentance."
"The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed."
"The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust."
"When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw theminto prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed.God blots out His people's sins, but not their names."
"...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness."
"You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that hes a Christian, but you look at how they live."
"As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action."
"Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions."
"When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian."
"One wonders why Christians today get off so easily. Is it because unchristian Americans are that much better than unchristian Romans, or is our light so dim that the tormentor can't see it? What are the things we do that are worth persecuting?"
"The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him."
"The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin."
"The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community."
"He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness."
"My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely."
"Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child."
