KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Robert Rainy Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Robert Rainy

Showing 1-8 of 8 Quotes by Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

~Robert Rainy

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

~Robert Rainy

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

~Robert Rainy

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

~Robert Rainy

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.

~Robert Rainy

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

~Robert Rainy

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

~Robert Rainy

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

~Robert Rainy

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Clergyman

Born: January 1st, 1826

Died: December 22nd, 1906

Links

Find Robert Rainy on Amazon

Related Authors

Henry Ward Beecher
Billy Graham
John C. Maxwell
Joel Osteen
Norman Vincent Peale
Robert H. Schuller
Charles Spurgeon
Swami Vivekananda

Popular Authors

Saint Teresa Of Avila George Carlin Franz Kafka Eartha Kitt Steve Martin Claude Monet William Butler Yeats Henny Youngman

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Beauty Communication Cool Moving On New Year's Sad Technology