The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.
D. Elton TruebloodWe need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
D. Elton TruebloodDemocracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
D. Elton TruebloodReligion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
D. Elton TruebloodIt takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
D. Elton TruebloodOne of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.
D. Elton Trueblood