There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the … - Roland Allen

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I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.

Roland Allen

There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

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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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