“For when we minister what is necessary to the indigent, we bestow not what is ours, but what rightly belongs to them.” (Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule, p. 146).
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“Only one thing more, and that of supreme importance, needs to be remembered: all eschatological interpretation of history, when united to a strong religious mentality cannot but produce the finest practical theological fruitage. To take God as source and end of all that exists and happens, and to hold such a view suffused with the
“Owing to the number, the difficulty, and the never-terminating, never-remitting obligations of these duties, even genuine Christians are in danger of “becoming weary of well-doing. They become backward to undertake them, and languid in performing them. They multiply and magnify obstacles. They are ingenious in devising excuses. They leave them half done, and are strongly
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“Let him be as successful as his heart can desire in the attainment of the pleasures, honours, and wealth of the world, what has he got? nothing but corruption. Short-lived, transitory, perishing are the leading characters of all things natural and earthly.” John Brown, Galatians, Banner of Truth Trust, p. 339.
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“That the ministers of the Church need support any man with common sense can see. Though this support is something physical the Apostle does not hesitate to call it sowing to the Spirit. When people scrape up everything they can lay their hands on and keep everything for themselves the Apostle calls it a sowing
