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D. Elton Trueblood

" A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Men , Kindness , Garden

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" A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Men , Kindness , Garden

" Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Faith , Trust , Believe

" Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Jobs , Jesus

" The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. "

D. Elton Trueblood

God , Faith , Sad

" This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means that God is like Jesus. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Christian , Mean , Jesus

" If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Men , Church , Average

" It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet. "

D. Elton Trueblood

People , Man , Men

" Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Trust , Sense , Humor

" No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Christian , Three

" At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Prayer , Men , Spiritual

" One 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

Grace , Blessing , Practice

" Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child. "

D. Elton Trueblood

Children , Challenges , Ordinary

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