An edition of In Context
(2012)
In Context
the stories behind seventy memorable sayings in church history
by A. Kenneth Curtis
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August 28, 2012 | History
Feast on notable sayings from Christian history. Now, in full color. In Context by Ken Curtis and Dan Graves uses winsome storytelling to illuminate the circumstances surrounding 70 memorable and inspirational sayings such as, "Here I stand, I can do no other" and "The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know." This book provides the context behind phrases you may have heard but never have known the origin of. Twenty centuries of Christian history are represented. In Context's stories can be read one at a time devotionally, but they are also an excellent source of information for pastors, teachers, and students of Christian history. - Publisher.
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In Context: the stories behind seventy memorable sayings in church history
2012, Christian History Institute
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1563648725 9781563648724
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Note 505 0 Introduction
My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior / Mary, the mother of Jesus
You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God / Apostle Peter
If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing / Apostle Paul
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son / John the Evangelist
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
What the soul is in the body, that are Christians in the world / unknown author
Fourscore and six years have I served him, and he has never done me injury / Polycarp of Smyrna
You can kill us, but you can't hurt us / Justin Martyr
The prison was made a palace for me / Vibia Perpetua
He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the church for his mother / Cyprian of Carthage
In hoc signo vinces (in this sign conquer) / Constantine
For he was made man that we might be made God / Athanasius
You who dress your walls, and let your fellow creatures go bare, what will you answer to the judge? / Basil the Great
They who belong to Christ destroy the property of Christ more than enemies / John Chrysostom
Our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you / Augustine of Hippo
Always have some work on hand, that the devil may find you busy / Jerome Heironymus
I think that ill fortune is of greater advantage to men than good fortune / Boethius
Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ / Benedict of Nursia
Whosoever calls himself, or desires to be called, universal priest, is in his elation the precursor of antichrist / Gregory the Great
In him are two natural wills and two natural operations / Sixth Ecumenical Council
I believe in God the Father Almighty / Pirmin
Grant me to come at length to yourself, the fount of all wisdom / Venerable Bede
All glory, laud, and honor, to thee, Redeemer, King / Theodulf of Orleans
We did not know where we were, on heaven or on earth / Russian ambassadors
You exist so truly, Lord my God, that you cannot even be thought not to exist / Anselm
God wills it! / Franks at Clermont
The Christian glories in the death of the pagan, because Christ is glorified / Bernard of Clairvaux
All praise be yours, my Lord, through all that you have made / Francis of Assisi
I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw / Thomas Aquinas
It is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff / Boniface VIII
All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well / Julian of Norwich
To be ignorant of the Scripture is the same thing as to be ignorant of Christ / John Wycliffe
Truth conquers all things / Jan Hus
Of two evils the lesser is always to be chosen / Thomas a Kempis
The truth might fare better at a lower temperature / Philipp Melanchthon
He has attacked the pope in his crown and the monks in their bellies / Disiderius Erasmus
I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of Scripture than you do / William Tyndale
Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen / Martin Luther
Do not put yourself at odds with the Word of God / Ulrich Zwingli
I came not hither to deny my Lord and Master / Anne Askew
I will cling to my Lord Christ as a burr on a coat / Katherina von Bora Luther
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us / John Calvin
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
If their princes exceed their bounds, Madam, no doubt they may be resisted, even by power / John Knox
I will make them conform themselves, or I will harry them out of the land / James I of England, VI of Scotland
The greatest precaution should be used against involving the innocent in danger / Hugo Grotius
We shall be as a city upon a hill / John Winthrop
They are the terror of boys and the slaughterhouses of minds / Jan Amos Comenius
What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy him forever / Westminster Assembly
The heart has its reasons which reason does not know / Blaise Pascal
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow / Thomas Ken
His burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back / John Bunyan
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men / Richard Baxter
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God / Brother Lawrence (Nicholas Herman)
None else but the glory of God / Johann Sebastian Bach
Preach faith till you have it and then because you have it you will preach faith / Peter Bohler
I look upon all the world as my parish / John Wesley
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me / John Newton
Expect great things from God ; attempt great things for God / William Carey
The prospects are as bright as the promise of God / Adoniram Judson
Christ being an absolute explodes all the relativity whereby we humans live / Soren Kierkegaard
I would as soon attempt to enslave Gabriel or Michael as to enslave a man made in the image of God / Henry Highland Garnet
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine / Frances J. Crosby
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
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely / John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There are no bad boys / Edward Flanagan
Those who joyfully take up my cross are themselves upborne by it / Sundar Singh
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose / Jim Elliot
Bless you, prison, for having been in my life! / Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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