“If we are to be saved, it will not be by Romans but by saints.”
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VII The End of the World
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Context: God is imperiled. He is not almighty, that we may cross our hands, waiting for certain victory. He is not all-holy, that we may wait trustingly for him to pity and to save us.
Within the province of our ephemeral flesh all of God is imperiled. He cannot be saved unless we save him with our own struggles; nor can we be saved unless he is saved.
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“The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.”
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“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”
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Context: Ladies and gentlemen of this Assembly, the decision is ours. Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames. Save it we can — and save it we must — and then shall we earn the eternal thanks of mankind and, as peacemakers, the eternal blessing of God.
