Anthony of Padua Quotes
Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.
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I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.
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If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
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The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.
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All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.
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Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
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It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.
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There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.
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Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.
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Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
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Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.
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The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.
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We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.
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You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
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Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.
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The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
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Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?.
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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
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He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.
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I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.
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Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
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Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.
