Harry Blamires Quotes

#1. You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue.

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#2. The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.

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#3. If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.

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#4. The wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor? ... You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.

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#5. The Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

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#6. The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.

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#7. Do we as Christians mentally inhabit the world presented to us by faith as the real world?

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#8. May God even yet deliver us from the sin of loyalty!

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#9. There is no longer a Christian mind.

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#10. There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

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#11. We twentieth-century Christians have chosen the way of compromise. We withdraw our Christian consciousness from the fields of public, commercial, and social life. When we enter these fields we are compelled to accept, for purposes of discussion, the secular frame of reference.

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#12. The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of whether we trouble to think and talk Christianly, and therefore theologically, about anything we or others may do or say, may turn out to have dire results.

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#13. The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

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