Gerald Vann quotes
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“Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life”
-- Gerald VannSource : Gerald Vann (1997). “The Seven Sweet Blessings of Christ: And How to Make Them Yours”, Sophia Inst Press
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“Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.”
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“If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.”
-- Gerald VannSource : Gerald Vann (1997). “The Seven Sweet Blessings of Christ: And How to Make Them Yours”, Sophia Inst Press
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“If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.”
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“Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.”
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“To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.”
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“How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.”
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“The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.”
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“The new is not revealed to those whose eyse are fastened in worship upon the old.”
Source : "Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947".
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“There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.”
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“The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.”
Source : Marva J. Dawn (2006). “The Sense of the Call: A Sabbath Way of Life for Those Who Serve God, the Church, and the World”, p.91, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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