James Denney famous quotes

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The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.
-- James Denney

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The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.
-- James Denney

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The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether
-- James Denney

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No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.
-- James Denney

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In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.
-- James Denney

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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.
If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.
In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.
The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.

James Denney famous quotes

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