Henry Clarence Thiessen quotes

“Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature”
-- Henry Clarence Thiessen

Source : Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.163, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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“Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds”
-- Henry Clarence Thiessen

Source : Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.173, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

#Deeds Quotes #Sin Quotes

“Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be”
-- Henry Clarence Thiessen

Source : Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.181, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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“Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity”
-- Henry Clarence Thiessen

Source : Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.191, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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“The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God has not seen fit to write the Bible in the form of a systematic theology; it remains for us, therefore, to gather together the scattered facts and to build them up into a logical system.”
-- Henry Clarence Thiessen

Source : Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.5, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

#Writing Quotes #Together Quotes #Body Quotes

“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.”

“It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.”

“Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.”

“Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.”

Source : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VII, Chapter 3, 1735.

“No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.”

“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”