"There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors."

-- Laurence Sterne

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“I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.”
“In each of us lies sleeping beauty, wasted potential, dying dreams. We sleep and live in dormant twilight, never knowing what it means to live, to love the bits of heaven that we can unearth deep in our hearts; not recognizing that our salvation is ever-present in those parts that we have disowned, denied, forgotten. The thorns of fear thwart faint attempt. The prince is courage, the kiss believing and then with these our life begins.”
“No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 14, 2015
“But if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't.”
“If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish”

Source : In D. Newsome 'The Parting of Friends' (1966) p. 395
“You know what shows today are missing? Stars.”
“My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways, in everything I say, in everything I like. I want desperately for the church in America to rediscover the power and the beauty and the nature and the necessity of the gospel.”
“Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.”

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