“Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.” MindReligionJesusLeftSecretChristianityToo MuchSweetBalanceMethodIntuitionCatholicismGreat PowerLeft OutProtestantismReasonableness Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible
“But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.” JesusSecretSweetMethodRemainsRighteousnessReasonableness Author:Matthew Arnold
“The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.” MenFirstsJesusForceChristLordImagineCreationSeriousDevilAbsolutesMethodPrisonSakeSpreadLoyaltyKingdomsOppositionImagine ThatFellowshipKingdom Of GodAlliancesEarthquakesBannerAntagonism Author:G. Campbell Morgan
“We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote anything down. It doesn't matter to me whether he did or not exist because we have his teachings, his method of thinking, and his extreme intellectual and moral courage.” ThinkingKnowsMatterJesusMoralTeachingIntellectualMethodExtremesProofWitnessMoral Courage Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.” ThinkingKnowsGivingDoeJesusEvidenceResponsibleMethodHistoricalSillyOverwhelmingHistorianScholarBiblicalCredence Author:Bart D. Ehrman
“Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.” EndsScienceFaithJesusUnderstandingReligiousStudyGreaterPrayingUniversalMethodArbitraryParticlesAngels And DemonsMeccaSubatomic Particles Book:Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel Source: Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115)” WayMayJesusAnswersTruth IsMethodWorking ItVaryPondering Author:Swami Satchidananda
“Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.” MenWorldLongCareJesusEffortGreaterDecidedMethodEsteemLong AgoDiscipleshipMeekMeekness Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always – as Paul puts it in one of his letters – bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.” WorldMayBookBodySufferingJesusDyingPrayingMessagesLettersPraiseMethodKingdomsCelebrateVulnerableGlimpseMisunderstoodVindicated Author:N. T. Wright
“I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.” ThinkingMeanEndsJesusCausesSidesWaterPrayerMinesAppreciateMethodMeetingsFolksScaredYesterdayChineseTortureScarePreacherHomosexualEnd TimesSignalsEquationsPropsVantage PointPrayer Meeting Author:Michelle Shocked