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They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.
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Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros
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There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial
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In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.
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SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
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I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.
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The living Lord leads His living church.
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The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.
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I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.
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I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.
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It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe; it breathed the very savor of Gospel antiquity. The sincerity of the author heightens his power of language.
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The pursuit of holiness is thus no mere private hobby, nor merely a path for a select few, but a vital element in Christian mission strategy today. The world's greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.
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I am a Catholic.
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Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.
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Faithfulness: where faith is full of necessary trusts!
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Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]
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The Western church needs to regain its confidence in the role of outsiders, relocators who come in humility and grace to learn first and then to offer a different perspective.
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For this gospel I was appointed w a herald, apostle, and teacher, x 12 and that is why I suffer y these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me C, z until that day. a
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Holiness sincerity, and faith.
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The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers
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Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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Be the apostle of the divine Eucharist, like a flame which enlightens and warms, like the Angel of his heart who will go to proclaim him to those who don't know him and will encourage those who love him and are suffering.
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If the teachings of the Protestants in Europe gave birth to the Protestant ethics and the modern civilization, it becomes alarming that most of our charismatic teachings today mainly concentrate on individual aggrandizement
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Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.
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Prayer is apath.
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Grace has not been well understood by the post-modern church let alone applied as post-moderns in our lives as a reality that Christ secured for us."

~R. Alan Woods [2012]
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A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.
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He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).
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Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.
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Holy faith, Holy life.
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It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.
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Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
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There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be until new apostles are sent by the Great Head of the Church for whose coming I am seeking.
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Popery Teaches the Adoration of a Breaden God.
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The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.
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Spiritual is divine.
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At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors.
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perfect Christian characters, seeking by diligent study and earnest prayer to gain the training essential for acceptable service in the cause of God.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.
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There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.
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Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
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Theology must have the character of a living procession.
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I am not nor have I ever been a 'wild-eyed' charismatic, but rather an 'empowered evangelical' (Nathan)".

~R. Alan Woods [2006]
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The so-called spirituality that was handed to me by those who put me to the task of pastoral work was not adequate. I do not find the emaciated, exhausted spirituality of institutional careerism adequate. I do not find the veneered, cosmetic spirituality of personal charisma adequate.
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The Way of the Ascetics
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When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.
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I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.
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Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him ... but here we are.
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The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.
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The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.
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Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine. The
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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
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The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
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Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt.
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As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.
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Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church
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Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.
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In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.
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There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.
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What could be more natural for me than to look upon the Abbot as representing the highest human ideal worth striving for, just as the position of the humble village priest had appeared to my father in his own boyhood days?
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In practice I regarded prayer as somehow more spiritual than sitting on a committee, preaching as more anointed than plumbing. Only the revelation of Christ's Humanity infused vigor into my bloodless theoretical doctrine.
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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
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I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.
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It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.
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Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
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In Jesus' Name eternal grace is sovereign in me and I am sovereign in life now
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Faith is divine. Apostles (in many cases) are the devil
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People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.
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Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.
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the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
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One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
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Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.
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A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor ...
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An "apostle" [is] one who is called and sent by Christ to have the spiritual authority, character, gifts and abilities to successfully reach and establish people in Kingdom truth and order, especially through founding and overseeing local churches.
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the Aleph-Null campaign.
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This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.
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Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left ...
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By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.
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I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
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There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable of responding to the challenges of our times and prepared to spread the Gospel far and wide.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but rather are practiced to beget most foolish questions, are to be deprived of the communion of the Church.
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Authentic faith cannot help but act.
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish pastor and writer from the mid-1800s, said, "The greatest need of my congregation is my own personal holiness."1
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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.
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The more holy, the more humble.
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Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.
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The Psalter is the great school of prayer.
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The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.
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We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.
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Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to this point, how he should live; and living well, how he should teach; and teaching rightly, with what kind of self-examination he should learn of his own weakness.