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On Twitter you can only post tweets up to 140 characters. For that reason sometimes the sayings and quotes are abridged and sometimes the sayings are posted as a "twin-tweet"; two tweets at almost the same time. Here is a list of the unabridged tweets and reference places in the books of Swete August 14, 2010 The forgiveness of sins had not only been taught by our Lord and His Apostles, but it was the most outstanding fact in Christian experience. Augsut 13, 2010 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx August 12, 2010 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx August 11, 2010 The Fatherhood of God, as it is seen in the light of the Gospel is the counterpart of the Love of God, which embraces the world and is not finally alienated even by its sin. August 10, 2010 Mk 8:31 ἀποδοκιμασθῆναι ... ἀποκτανθῆναι ... ἀναστῆναι] A remarkable complete outline of the Passion in its three stages: (1) the official rejection of the Messiah by the Sanhedrin, (2) His violent death, (3) His victory over death. August 9, 2010 In substance and style and treatment the Gospel of St.Mark is essentially a trascript from life. The course and the issue of facts are imaged in it with the clearest outline. /Westcott August 8, 2010 Limited as St. Mark’s work is to recollections of the Lord’s Ministry and Passion, it is full of glimpses into His future relations to the world. August 7, 2010 The forgiveness of sins had not only been taught by our Lord and His Apostles, but it was the most outstanding fact in Christian experience. August 6, 2010 The centurion’s words express the conviction with which the student of St.Mark rises from his examination of the Gospel. (15:39) August 5, 2010 Mark: No Gospel brings into clearer light the perfect humanity of the Lord. He can be touched (1:41) and grieved and angered (3:5); He makes as though He does not hear(5:36) or does not see(6:48), He moved with indignation(10:14), He permits Himself to use irony(14:41); He sleeps from fatigue (4:38); He possesses a human spirit (2:8), sooul (14:34), and body (15:43), with al their capacities and their sinless limitations. August 4, 2010 Mark: In every act and word the Christ of the second Gospel is revealed as the supreme Son of man and the only Son of God. August 3, 2010 St. Mark does not write with a dogmatic purpose. August 2, 2010 The oldest of living organizations is among the most enterprising; the Church seems to be ever starting anew upon her original mission. August 1, 2010 We confess our faith in a personal God, and as we utter the words, we are conscious of the intellectual difficulties which lurk behind them. July 31, 2010 Christianity is not a progressive science, but a permanent revelation; the Church is not a discoverer, but the witness and keeper of a faith once delivered to the saints. July 30, 2010 The first two chapters of Genesis describe a sinless world, but in the third chapter Sin starts upon its way, and its course is marked by loss and misery. July 29, 2010 No one who reads the Old Testament with any attention can fail to be struck by the prominence which is everywhere give to the fact of Sin. July 28, 2010 To the early Church the baptismal gift of forgiveness was the most certain of facts, .. July 27, 2010 The forgiveness of sins had not only been taught by our Lord and His Apostles, but it was the most outstanding fact in Christian experience. July 26, 2010 The Forgiveness of Sins: The position which this article holds in the creeds is significant. It is found invariably in the third division, which treats the Holy Spirit and the Holy Church; it represents the Forgiveness of Sins as the first great asset of membership in the body of Christ, and the necessary precursor of the resurection to eternal life. July 25, 2010 The Forgiveness of Sins: There is no article in the creed which is more primitive or more universal; none which more deeply touches the life or more surely reflects the experience of all sincere Christians. July 24, 2010 The Forgiveness of Sins has a place in all complete ancient creeds. July 23, 2010 We are heirs of the past, and our present thought and knowledge are the product of all ages. July 22, 2010 The Church has a continuous life, the life of the indwelling Spirit of Christ. July 21, 2010 The God of Israel, in the infinite majesty of His uncreated being, is in a unique sense ‘the Holy One’ – unapproachable, transcending all finite creaturely existences; July 20, 2010 The Holiness of the Christian Church is a note inherited from its predecessor, the Church or congregation of Israel. July 19, 2010 he One Church is “Holy”. Holiness is perhaps the most characteristic note of the Church as she presented herself. to the thoughts of the first age. ... No other title was given to the Church so widely or at so early a date. July 18, 2010 It is the will of the True Pastor of the Universal Church that His flock shall be one, .. July 17, 2010 The interruption of Christian fellowship between East & West, and in the West, between the Roman & Anglican churches, is perplexing and July 16, 2010 Diversities of gifts, ministrations, operations are possible, as St Paul has taught us, among those who have the same Spirit, the same Lord, the same God. July 15, 2010 As individual members of the church may differ in character and gifts without prejudice to their life in Christ,.. July 14, 2010 At Rome, in a time of persecution, the Christian camp was divided in the face of the enemy; & Carthage was threatened with a like disaster. July 13, 2010 On the other hand, the first formal treatise on the Unity of the Church is due to the Latin West. .. July 12, 2010 So it has come to pass that we Westerns of to-day owe it to an Eastern Creed that at the Eucharist we aknowledge the Church to be one. July 11, 2010 As the East confessed One God and One Lord, so it confessed One Church. .. July 10, 2010 The unity of the Church is, strange as this may appear, has never founded expression in the Western Creeds; to give it symbolic recognition was the work of Eastern Christianity. July 9, 2010 Baptism admits, not into a particular church, but into union with Christ, and therefore into union with His Body, the universal Ecclesia. July 8, 2010, triple-tweet The earthly Church is the Church in making, in which the heavenly ideal realizes itself ever more and more. July 7, 2010 The Church is the House of God, a great mansion replete with all things necessary fo the Master’s use; a spiritual house built of living stones, designed for holy, priestly service. July 6, 2010, twin-tweet Hence the Parable of the Sower can never be out of date; July 5,2010 Our Lord could see these conditions actually existing in the crowds before Him, and they exist to-day in all large asemblies of men. July 4, 2010, twin-tweet And we see also the cause of the failure; it is not the sower or the seed, but in the soil, July, 3, 2010, twin-tweet In the Parable of the Sower we see the Kingdom of Heaven entering human life through the Gospel, and the very mixed record of failure and success which it can shew. June 2, 2010 And when the good seed finds lodgement in the good soil, good fruit is the result. July 1, 2010, twin-tweet The good ground is after all the normal destination of the seed, and the honest and good heart (καρδία καλὴ καὶ ἀγαθή)( Lk 8,15) is to be found wherever the word of the Kingdom is spoken. June 30, 2010, twin-tweet But there is another side to the picture, for there is a splendid optimism in our Lord’s teaching, which while it recognizes the saddest facts of life never loses sight of the immense balance of good. June 29, 2010, triple-tweet All this means failure, and the Great Sower foresees and expects failure; June 28, 2010, twin-tweet The parable follows the fortuness of the seed which passed out of the sower’s hands; June 27, 2010 So in St. Mark the parable, which began with Hearken! ends (vs.9) He that hath ears to hear, let him hear; let him attend and assimilate what he hears. June 26, 2010, twin-tweet As the sower can do no more than sow, so the Son of Man could not but speak to the ears of men. June 25, 2010, twin-tweet The power of the Kingdom of Heaven can no more work apart from human co-operation than the grain of corn put forth the life that is in it to good effect unless it falls into good soil. June 24, 2010, triple-tweet (actualy 1-7-2010) The parable of the sower: What is the main teaching of this parable? June 23, 2010, twin-tweet Christ was sowing the seed of the Kingdom; but were these people receiving it to any good purpose? For the seed of the Kingdom, like the natural seed, may fail of its purpose, and that in more ways than one. June 22, 2010 The sayings of Christ Himself,though spirit and life,have no effect upon a man’s life apart from the man himself:the soil has its part to do. June 21, 2010 But seed does not produce life itself alone: it needs soil. Here is a second common to nature again. Human co-operation must assist the work of the Sower. June 20, 2010, twin-tweet The Kingdom of Heaven, the invisible power of God over them, was, even as He spoke, being exerted just the same way as the powers of Nature are used by the sower who goes forth to sow. June 19, 2010 But of course what the audience was really called to mark was the corresponding process which even as He spoke going forward in their own lives. June 18, 2010 Every saying that Christ let drop had life in itself, and the power to produce life; June 17, 2010, twin-tweet The Great Son of Man, during His ministry, was but a Sower of seed. His seeds were His words. June 16, 2010, twin-tweet The Kingdom of God: Kingdom in this phrase means Sovereingty rather than the sphere in which the Sovereign reigns; .he Kingdom of God and not the area or the people over which it is excided. June 15, 2010 The whole teaching of Jesus Christ, at least the Galilean teaching, centres round three or four leading ideas, and the foremost of these is that of the Kingdom of God. June 14, 2010 For us, to whom the Divine Secret has been given, the parables throw ever growing light upon it, and are an inexhausible store of spiritual teachting. June 13, 2010, twin-tweet The parables must in fact have veiled the truth from those who were not ready to receive it in its naked simplicity, while at the same time they preserved it in the memory, in readiness for the time, if it ever came, when men would be prepared for it. June 12, 2010, twin-tweet It is not either their litary beauty or their exact correspondence with the facts of life which gave te parables their supreme interest. June 11, 2010, twin-tweet Myths, fables, allegories are common in literature ancient and modern; but there is no other collection of ‘parables’ that can be placed in comparison with those we find in the Gospels. June 10, 2010 The Hebrew Prophets foresaw that it was the destiny of their race to be scattered over the face of the world (Dt 28,25; 30,4 Jr 15,4 34,17). June 9, 2010 It is the Spirit of prophecy who answers to the voice of heaven; who identifies Himself with the Church in her call for the Lord to come. June 8, 2010 The Christology of the Apocalypse may evade analysis, but it meets the need of the Church in times of storm and stress. June 7, 2010 The reign of the Ascended Christ is preparatory to the Eternal Reign of God. June 6, 2010 In human history He is supreme: He alone is able to open, one after another, all the seals of the Book of Destiny. (Rev 5,5; 6,1ff) June 5, 2010 In the creation Jesus Christ holds the foremost place. He is its beginning and its goal. He receives its tribute of praise. June 4, 2010 From the ascended Christ are to be obtained all spiritual gifts and helps; from Him are to be expected the final rewards. June 3, 2010 To the members of His church the ascended Christ is all in all. He loves them, He redeemed them, and He made them what they are, a new Israel, a kingdom of priests. June 2, 2010 Our Lord not only illuminated the future life, but He gave in His own person a guarantee of his certainty. June 1, 2010 The world, as it grew older, grew less hopeful, or abandoned hope altogether. Then the Gospel came and changed all this. May 31, 2010 The Ancient Creeds may well be in the future one of the chief instruments for bringing about the reunion of Christendom. May 30, 2010 The importance of the “Nicene” Creed as u unifying force in Christendom is incalculable. May 29, 2010 The creed we call Nicene is in fact the Creed of Constantinople. May 28, 2010 He requires men to believe His words, but He requires them also to confide wholly in Himself, as the Only-begotten Son of God. May 27, 2010 No Apostolic Pen had done for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit that what S.John did for the kindred doctrine of the Person of Our Lord. May 26, 2010 Act 7,56 What Stephen saw sustained him in the supreme moment of life, and made him more than conqueror (Rom 8,37) in death. May 25, 2010 Acts 7,56 .. here only He stands at the Father’s side. He had risen from His seat to succour His servant in the hour of great need. May 24, 2010 The gift of the Spirit was no longer limited to a few chosen servants of God; henceforth it was for all the Lord’s people, for young and old. May 23, 2010, Pentecost Acts 2,14: St.Peter, ever ready to act, and now prompted by the Spirit, accepted the challenge and poured out a flood of inspired eloquence. May 22, 2010 Christ hath merited righteousness for as many are found in Him. In him God findeth us, if we be faithful: for by faith we are incorporated into Him. May 21, 2010 It is by no means immaterial whether our acceptance with God depends upon the righteousness of Christ, or upon our own. May 20, 2010 If the Church was to carry on His mission, she also must be born of the Spirit, baptized with the Spirit, inspired by the Spirit, and thus enabeld to do her part in the generation of the world. (194)
May 19. 2010 Jesus Himself had been sent, entrusted with a mission, and one which none but Himself could fulfil. May 18, 2010 Acts 1,16 It is new to find one of the Eleven interpreting the Psalms as prophetic of events in the life of Jesus. May 17. 2010 It is not without significance that the writer of the 4th Gospel does not permit himself to call believers “sons of God”; they are “children” τέκνα θεοῦ, but he reserves the title ὁ υἱὸς θεοῦ for our Lord. May 16, 2010 The Spirit does not come to supersede the Son, but to glorify Him. (John 15,14) May 15, 2010 The mission of Jesus, which was the highest expression of the Divine love, was addressed to sinners without distinction. (Mk 2,17; Lk 19,10) May 14, 2010, Twin-tweet Apoc 21,4.17 This painless, deathless, sinless future comes with the Ascended Christ; He has already entered it, and He will bring it with Him to the world. Who that has this hope in Him will not take up the call of the Spirit and the Bride, and say Come? Apoc 22,17.20 Amen : come Lord Jesus. May 13, 2010 Ascension Day Easter is preliminary to Ascension-tide, and Ascension-tide opens before our faith the full glory of the life of Christ with God. May 12, 2010 No Christian, who follows the teaching of S.Paul and S.John, can doubt that the Eternal Word or Son is supreme in the Kingdom of Nature. May 12, 2010 was the take-off of the daily tweets of sayings of Henry Barclay Swete |