Our Lord Quotes - Page 15

• Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.

  Thomas Helwys

  Kings, People, Catholic

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• Scot McKnight stirs the treasures of our Lord's life in an engaging fashion. He did so with The Jesus Creed, and does so again with 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. Make sure this new guide for living is on your shelf.

  Max Lucado

  Fashion, Jesus, Doe

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• As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Strong, Thinking

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• What change has made the pastures sweet
  And reached the daisies at my feet,
  And cloud that wears a golden hem?
  This lovely world, the hills, the sward--
  They all look fresh, as if our Lord
  But yesterday had finished them.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Spring, Past

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.39

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• Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of His mercy. They were throughout moral in their character, and spiritual in the ends contemplated by them. They were in fact embodiments of His whole character; exemplars of His whole teaching, emblems of His whole mission.

  James McCosh

  Spiritual, Teaching, Character

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics, Delivered in New York, Jan. 16 to March 20, 1871, on the "Ely Foundation" of the Union Theological Seminary”, p.290

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• You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Strong, Heaven, Gold

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.364

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• Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

  Richard Mant

  Son, Men, Departure

  Richard Mant (1828). “Biographical Notices of the Apostles, Evangelists and Other Saints: With Reflexions and Collects : Adapted to the Minor Festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland”, p.396

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• But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).

  Reza Aslan

  War, Home, Fighting

  Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.84, Random House

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• I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's decision not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Religious, Humor

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• Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Religious, Redemption, Glory

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• When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Morning

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

  Vance Havner

  Idols, Idol Worship, Spirit

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• We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge . . .

  Pope Paul III

  Exercise, Sheep, Might

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• We must look upon the world, with all its delights and all its attractions, with suspicion and reserve. We who love our Lord and whose affections are set on Heavenly things voluntarily and gladly lay aside the things that charm and ravish the world, that our hearts may be ravished with the things of Heaven; that our whole being may be poured forth in constant and unreserved devotion in the service of the Lord who died to save us.

  Amy Carmichael

  Heart, Heaven, Looks

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• The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lord, Situation, Can't Change

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.43, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The Lord's Supper has been greatly instrumental in keeping His cause alive. It is the voice of all believers preaching the Lord's death till He come. He who believes that the Lord did come and die for us, and will come again and take us to Himself, and will not hesitate to regard this last request of our Lord and Saviour.

  Charles Deems

  Believe, Voice, Lord's Supper

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• The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

  Billy Graham

  News, Wonderful, Mercy

  "Evangelist Billy Graham leaves hospital", www.cnn.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Father, Love You, Mean

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• Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Lord, Crosses

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• Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sacrifice, Perfection, Choices

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• If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Two, Wish

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.215, Ignatius Press

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• There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Sacrifice, Effort

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “Letters to Persons in the World”, p.39, Aeterna Press

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• A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

  J. C. Ryle

  Giving Up, Humble, Two

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.455, Editora Dracaena

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• Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

  Meister Eckhart

  Prayer, People, Giving

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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