I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way … - Roland Allen

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Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

Roland Allen

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

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We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them.

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The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing. . . What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.

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The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

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