Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Born : March 10, 1473Died : August 25, 1554 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk paradisehell As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk churchcollegebible There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk progressdarkmen I owe my nurture to evangelicalism. The evangelical wins hands down in the history of the church when it comes to nurturing a biblically literate laity. When we think of evangelism, evangelicals are the most resourceful, the most intrepid, and the most creative. But evangelicals themselves would say that they have never come to grips with what the whole mystery of the church is. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk winninghandsthinking A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric. It is more than a question of God simply seeing us through a legal scrim of Christ's righteousness. Righteousness actually begins to transform us. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk doctrinegraceviews
