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Anglican Priest Inspirational Quotes (1741)

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You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
Alan Watts
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
Desmond Tutu
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Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
Rowan Williams
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The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
J. I. Packer
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
John Henry Newman
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Thomas Malthus
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Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.
George Pattison
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There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
Gene Robinson
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I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.
N. T. Wright
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...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
N. T. Wright
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Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?
Alan Watts
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.
Alan Watts
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That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.
Alan Watts
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I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.
Alan Watts
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
Desmond Tutu
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A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
Desmond Tutu
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
Desmond Tutu
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
J. I. Packer
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The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
J. I. Packer
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To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Alan Watts
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Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.
J. C. Ryle
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Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being drawn toward. Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.
Carter Heyward
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It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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