Christian growth is forgetting about yourself. Gerhard More Quotes by Gerhard More Quotes From Gerhard We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer is shocking: ‘Nothing! Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son! Listen and believe!’ Gerhard age believe son You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and Gerhard purpose sake culture The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God. Gerhard way jesus christ A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy. Gerhard currency duty common ...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion. Gerhard hell compassion blessed A comprehended God is no God at all! Gerhard If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees. Gerhard preoccupation bondage assumption A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who ‘looks on all things through suffering and the cross’ is constrained to speak the truth…it will see precisely that the cross and the resurrection itself is the only answer to that problem, not erasure or neglect. Gerhard suffering answers looks What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom. Gerhard elements different together I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information. Gerhard important perfect art We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home. Gerhard home men life
