Thomas Bradwardine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.
-- Thomas Bradwardine

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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.
I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

Thomas Bradwardine famous quotes

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