Quotable Quotes: Food for Thought
This page is simply a place where I post quotes from different sources that seem to me to be food for thought.
I hope you find them nourishing as well!
"The hungry mind is satisfied with the vision of Eternal Truth, the hungry spirit is satisfied with Christ Himself." - W.C.E. Newbolt, The Sacrament of the Altar
The Importance of Prayer
"Prayer is as essential to the soul and spirit of man as respiration is to the body." A.J. Worlledge, Prayer
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Bp. John Jewel wrote: "In the matter of making changes in religion we did nothing rashly or violently ; we acted slowly and with great deliberation ; and we should not have acted at all unless we had felt ourselves compelled to do so by the plain and undoubted will of God, declared to us in the Holy Scriptures, and by regard for our own salvation."
"For though we have parted from that Church which they call the Catholic Church (using that name to create a prejudice against us in the minds of those who have not the means of judging), yet we are well satisfied (and every man of prudence and piety who has the thought of eternal life before him ought to be well satisfied) that we have only parted from a Church which could err, which Christ, Who cannot err, had forewarned us would err, and which we have plainly seen with our own eyes to have parted from the Holy Fathers and the Apostles, from Christ Himself, and from the Primitive and Catholic Church; and we have drawn near, as near as we possibly could, to the Church of the Apostles and of the ancient Catholic Bishops and Fathers, whose Church we know was still sound, and, as Tertullian (AD145-220) says, of “virginal purity,” not yet contaminated by idolatry or by any grave and publicly accepted error."
"We have adapted not only our doctrine but also our sacraments and the order of our public prayers to their rites and ordinances, and we have recalled religion, which was shamefully neglected and depraved, to its original and primary state, as we know that Christ Himself did, and almost all godly men have done. For we judged that to restore religion we must recur to the source from which it first sprang."
The Life of Grace
"The life of grace here below is the germ of eternal glory. It is bestowed upon us in the sacraments and unfolds in the dialogue of faith hope and love." Bernard Haring, The Law of Christ, Vol. 2
Food, Sin, and Grace
"There is something very suggestive in the thought that the first Adam brought death into his soul through food, and the Second Adam confers life upon the soul through food also." W.C.E. Newbolt, The Sacrament of the Altar
The Bible
"And he who looks for the plain indisputable sense of the Bible will discover that it consists, not in a complicated web of theological propositions nor in subtleties of definition, but simply in the presentation of Jesus Christ as the son of God who was born and lived and died for the salvation of the world." Paul Elmer More, from The Spirit of Anglicanism in Anglicanism by More & Cross
On Prayer
"This is the question for us : Do we, with our superior knowledge of God, take trouble about our devotion to Him, or put real effort of will and heart and head into it, at all proportionate to the true knowledge granted to us, at all proportionate to the amount of effort we put into our businesses or our social duties and pleasures ? Or is our life of business and our life of pleasure organized and real, and our life of prayer limited to a rather perfunctory hour on Sundays and a few of the sleepiest moments of our day ? Undoubtedly, if we have the privilege of intercourse with God, we must take pains to realize it. Undoubtedly, if there is a life of prayer, it will not be experienced or developed without real effort and system and thought and perseverance. But to justify us in taking pains about prayer, we must believe in its efficacy. I cannot seriously train myself to hold intercourse with God, or make request to Him, unless I really believe both that God exists and that He hears and grants the prayers of men." CharlesGore, Prayer and the Lord's Prayer
"The impulse to pray is not a sentimentalisism: it is destiny." The Interpreter's Bible, Vol.8
"The Christian ideal is that the whole life of a person should be transformed into an unceasing prayer, so that his every word and deed should be penetrated by prayer." Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, Prayer and Silence
Regeneration and Conversion
"In regeneration God gives Himself to the soul; in conversion the soul gives itself to God." E.C.S. Gibson, The Thirty-nine Articles