Rod Rosenbladt quotes

Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ.
-- Rod Rosenbladt

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The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying “eat all your vegetables”. Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn’t want and certainly didn’t deserve, and he did it anyway.
-- Rod Rosenbladt

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Be of good cheer, my son. Your sins are forgiven.
-- Rod Rosenbladt

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Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.

Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.