I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.
While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.
Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow man and I will tell you how much you have loved them.
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends toward the formation of character.
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
