
“When the world stops booing the church and begins to applaud it, its enthusiasm ought to arouse the Christian's suspicion.”
― The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
― The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
“In the final analysis, the purity of the church cannot be guaranteed by decrees - it can only be guaranteed by church members who know their faith, both its vital elements and its secondary ones, and the difference between them.”
― The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
― The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
“If we want our worship, or attempts at worship, to mean anything, we have to strive to conform it to the nature and will of God, and not to the mood or taste of the [current] century.”
― The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
― The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
“A nontheological faith cannot explain itself, but a too theological faith loses contact with the reason for its existence. (154)”
― Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy from the Apostles to the Present
― Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy from the Apostles to the Present
“Christian faith must be personal in the sense that each person individually understands the historic faith and personally commits himself to it, but not in the sense that he decides what it should be.”
― The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
― The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
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