Daniel Thambyrajah Niles quotes

“Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.”
-- Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

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“The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand.”
-- Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

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“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”

“If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.”

“And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.”

“Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.”

“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”

“I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.”

“It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.”

“People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.”

Source : "At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.

“Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.”

“The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.”