Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged J.G. Fichte, Samuel Johnson, Walker Percy on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘[T]he metaphysical only, and not the historical, can give us blessedness; the latter can only give us understanding.’
- J.G. Fichte
‘During those years I stood outside the universe and sought to understand it. I lived in my room as an Anyone living Anywhere and only for diversion took walks around the neighborhood and saw an occasional [...]
Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged Charles Wesley, Cyril of Jerusaelm, Hans Urs von Balthasar on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘We preach not one coming only of Jesus Christ, but a second also, far more glorious than the first. The first revealed the meaning of his patient endurance; the second brings with it the crown of the divine kingdom.’
- Cyril of Jerusalem
‘In the Son’s parousia there takes place the parousia of the Father, which is [...]
Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged Abraham Kuyper, Charles Wesley, Johann Rist on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘This Child, now weak in infancy,
Our confidence and joy shall be,
The power of Satan breaking,
Our peace eternal making.’
- Johann Rist
‘The Word has become flesh! It has become flesh never to be separated from that flesh again! Not even presently on the Throne. . . . The Word having become flesh creates therewith the real possibility [...]
Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged Charles Wesley, Georg W.F. Hegel, George W. Truett on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘In Swabia people say of something that took place long ago that it is so long since it happened that it can hardly be true any more. So Christ died for our sins so long ago that it can hardly be true any more.’
- Georg W.F. Hegel
‘Christ was born in the first century, yet he [...]
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