In Context
Subtitle: the stories behind seventy memorable sayings in church history
Publisher: Christian History Institute
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Worcester, PA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781563648724
Table of contents: title: Note	505	0	 	Introduction; title: My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior / Mary, the mother of Jesus; title: You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God / Apostle Peter; title: If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing / Apostle Paul; title: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son / John the Evangelist; title: I am the wheat of God and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ / Ignatius of Antioch; title: What the soul is in the body, that are Christians in the world / unknown author; title: Fourscore and six years have I served him, and he has never done me injury / Polycarp of Smyrna; title: You can kill us, but you can't hurt us / Justin Martyr; title: The prison was made a palace for me / Vibia Perpetua; title: He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the church for his mother / Cyprian of Carthage; title: In hoc signo vinces (in this sign conquer) / Constantine; title: For he was made man that we might be made God / Athanasius; title: You who dress your walls, and let your fellow creatures go bare, what will you answer to the judge? / Basil the Great; title: They who belong to Christ destroy the property of Christ more than enemies / John Chrysostom; title: Our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you / Augustine of Hippo; title: Always have some work on hand, that the devil may find you busy / Jerome Heironymus; title: I think that ill fortune is of greater advantage to men than good fortune / Boethius; title: Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ / Benedict of Nursia; title: Whosoever calls himself, or desires to be called, universal priest, is in his elation the precursor of antichrist / Gregory the Great; title: In him are two natural wills and two natural operations / Sixth Ecumenical Council; title: I believe in God the Father Almighty / Pirmin; title: Grant me to come at length to yourself, the fount of all wisdom / Venerable Bede; title: All glory, laud, and honor, to thee, Redeemer, King / Theodulf of Orleans; title: We did not know where we were, on heaven or on earth / Russian ambassadors; title: You exist so truly, Lord my God, that you cannot even be thought not to exist / Anselm; title: God wills it! / Franks at Clermont; title: The Christian glories in the death of the pagan, because Christ is glorified / Bernard of Clairvaux; title: All praise be yours, my Lord, through all that you have made / Francis of Assisi; title: I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw / Thomas Aquinas; title: It is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff / Boniface VIII; title: All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well / Julian of Norwich; title: To be ignorant of the Scripture is the same thing as to be ignorant of Christ / John Wycliffe; title: Truth conquers all things / Jan Hus; title: Of two evils the lesser is always to be chosen / Thomas a Kempis; title: The truth might fare better at a lower temperature / Philipp Melanchthon; title: He has attacked the pope in his crown and the monks in their bellies / Disiderius Erasmus; title: I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of Scripture than you do / William Tyndale; title: Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen / Martin Luther; title: Do not put yourself at odds with the Word of God / Ulrich Zwingli; title: I came not hither to deny my Lord and Master / Anne Askew; title: I will cling to my Lord Christ as a burr on a coat / Katherina von Bora Luther; title: It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us / John Calvin; title: We shall this day, by God's grace, light up such a candle in England, as I trust, will never be put out / Hugh Latimer; title: If their princes exceed their bounds, Madam, no doubt they may be resisted, even by power / John Knox; title: I will make them conform themselves, or I will harry them out of the land / James I of England, VI of Scotland; title: The greatest precaution should be used against involving the innocent in danger / Hugo Grotius; title: We shall be as a city upon a hill / John Winthrop; title: They are the terror of boys and the slaughterhouses of minds / Jan Amos Comenius; title: What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy him forever / Westminster Assembly; title: The heart has its reasons which reason does not know / Blaise Pascal; title: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow / Thomas Ken; title: His burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back / John Bunyan; title: I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men / Richard Baxter; title: We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God / Brother Lawrence (Nicholas Herman); title: None else but the glory of God / Johann Sebastian Bach; title: Preach faith till you have it and then because you have it you will preach faith / Peter Bohler; title: I look upon all the world as my parish / John Wesley; title: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me / John Newton; title: Expect great things from God ; attempt great things for God / William Carey; title: The prospects are as bright as the promise of God / Adoniram Judson; title: Christ being an absolute explodes all the relativity whereby we humans live / Soren Kierkegaard; title: I would as soon attempt to enslave Gabriel or Michael as to enslave a man made in the image of God / Henry Highland Garnet; title: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine / Frances J. Crosby; title: There is not an inch in the entire area of our human life of which Christ who is sovereign of all does not cry, "Mine" / Abraham Kuyper; title: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely / John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton; title: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting / Gilbert Keith Chesterton; title: There are no bad boys / Edward Flanagan; title: Those who joyfully take up my cross are themselves upborne by it / Sundar Singh; title: He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose / Jim Elliot; title: Bless you, prison, for having been in my life! / Alexander Solzhenitsyn