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86 percent of Americans identified themselves as Christian, with the various Protestant denominational affiliations accounting for 49 percent of the U.S.
“How should we respond when we find the Word perplexing or dry or boring or unappealing? We keep eating. We receive nourishment. We keep listening and learning and taking our daily bread.”
― Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
― Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
“He had been there long enough to have treated most of their fathers and mothers, many grandfathers and grandmothers too, and recognise ailments that were like artefacts passed down the family, inarguable proofs of the theory that since human beings first stood upright, nothing was ever really cured.”
― Time of the Child
― Time of the Child
“We recognize far too seldom that religious and confirmation instruction and the Sunday school can in no way give what previous generations knew from home through Bible reading and what was learned from pious parents. Today the need of the hour for the Lutheran Church is to become a teaching church again.”
― We Confess Anthology 53-1037 404969/01
― We Confess Anthology 53-1037 404969/01
“an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”
― On the Incarnation: Saint Athanasius
― On the Incarnation: Saint Athanasius
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