Best religion & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: India of My Dreams

“Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.”

Firsts Religion Language Sacrifice Elements God Love Resolve Theological

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.”

Feelings Religion Language Situation Suits

“when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.”

“Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.”

Want Science Religion Language Behinds Silence Magic Poet Shining Painter Silence Is Daylight Illusionists

Book:Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

Source: Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.”

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Book:The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

Source: The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

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Book:Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”

Source: Autobiographies

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