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			 Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the read more 
	 Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men 
		
 
	
			 How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere read more 
	 How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. 
		
 
	
			 Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement read more 
	 Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel. 
		
 
	
			 The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, read more 
	 The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. 
		
 
	
			 It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token read more 
	 It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token that there hath not been of late in him any insensible supply of heinous offenses, because his stale sins are still his new and daily sorrow. 
		
 
	
			 Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we read more 
	 Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with. 
		
 
	
			 In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him read more 
	 In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him when no need is pressing, when things seem going right of themselves, may be harder than when things seem going wrong. 
		
 
	
			 Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, read more 
	 Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  If you here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor through inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it. 
		
 
	
			 Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Then are we servants of God, then are we read more 
	 Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.