Your meditation may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practice every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament! What we may do may be Godly, but this Sacrament is God Himself! Johannas Tauler, German Theologian (1300-1361) Comment: Great voices out of the past remind us that the present day Communion by a believer in Christ is not about what we have done or could have done it is about what God has done for us is what counts and will last forever! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Tag: theologian
Are You Common? Genesis 3:1
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived! Johann G. Seume, German Theologian, (1763-1810)
Keep the Sabbath!
Do not let Sunday be taken from you! If your soul has no Sunday it becomes an orphan! Albert Schweitzer French-German Theologian (1875-1965) Nobel Peace Prize winner (1952)
Politics
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers! British Theologian Richard Hooker (1554-1600)
Misdirected Zeal
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others! French Theologian Pasquier Quesnel (1634-1719) Comment: Remember Paul said he had a zeal for God but not according to knowledge! Today as before in history we face movements whether religious, political or social that are blinded from truth and press on running over basic human rights of men! Paul stopped his persecution of Christian’s when the light appeared to him on the road to Damascus! Pray for Christ’s light to shine into our dark world! Thankyou. James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Heaven or Hell?
Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition! John Pearson, British Theologian (1612-1686) Comment: It is not what you do that sends you to Hell, it is what you don’t do! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Give Me Not Riches or Poverty!
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart! American Theologian Theodore Parker (1810-1860) Theodore was an abolitionist and aided John Brown in helping many slaves to escape!
What Happened to America?
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord’s song in a strange land! David Novak (1941- ) , Jewish Theologian
Reason for Christian to Vote?
Goodness, armed with power is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed! Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
Democracy
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems! American Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) Comment: Our Founding Father’s recognized the limitations of human government! Problems are created by humans and then attempts to solve by humans! This is why our Constitution has a Spiritual Dimension! Just as the Trinity exists to reconcile man to God so our three branches of government exist to reconcile the governed to the government. Just one of many examples of the Biblical pattern of our Constitution! Thankyou. James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com