“Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.”
First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr (1968)
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“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.”
(Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 37).
"What Must We Do To Be Saved?" (1880) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38801/38801-h/38801-h.htm Section XI, "What Do You Propose?"
Context: I do not believe in forgiveness as it is preached by the church. We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves. If I rob Mr. Smith and God forgives me, how does that help Smith? If I, by slander, cover some poor girl with the leprosy of some imputed crime, and she withers away like a blighted flower and afterward I get the forgiveness of God, how does that help her? If there is another world, we have got to settle with the people we have wronged in this. No bankrupt court there. Every cent must be paid.
“Each bishop has his qualities and in each historical moment society needs different styles.”
The Chilean church has lost its credibility. Bishop Aos is hopeful he can change that. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/04/12/chilean-church-has-lost-its-credibility-bishop-aos-hopeful-he-can-change (12 April 2019)
Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
2010s, Address to the United States Congress, Mercy Is 'What Pleases God Most
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 90).