Jason
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First Reformed quotes
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Michael Mensana
Are you a drinking man, Reverend?
Reverend Ernst Toller
It doesn't help.
Michael Mensana
You believe in martyrdom, Reverend?
Reverend Ernst Toller
I'm not sure I know what you mean.
Michael Mensana
The Saints of God, the early Christians who wouldn't renounce their faith? The missionaries who were attacked in the fields of the Lord. Do you believe that they died for a purpose?
Reverend Ernst Toller
I do.
Michael Mensana
Well, every week, activists are killed trying to protect the environment.
Reverend Ernst Toller
Well, somebody has to do something! It's the Earth that hangs in the balance.
Reverend Joel Jeffers
Well what if this is His plan? What if we just can't see it?
Reverend Ernst Toller
You think God wants to destroy his creation?
Reverend Joel Jeffers
He did once. For 40 days and 40 nights.
Reverend Joel Jeffers
The creation waits in eager expectation of liberation from bondage. That's Romans 8:23. You understand?
Reverend Ernst Toller
So, we should pollute so God can restore? We should sin so God can forgive?
Reverend Joel Jeffers
A Mighty Fortress is Our God. That's all organ. Did you know that, uh, Martin Luther wrote that in an outhouse?
Reverend Ernst Toller
Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world.
Reverend Ernst Toller
Courage is the solution to despair, reason provides no answers. I can't know what the future will bring; we have to choose despite uncertainty. Wisdom is holding two contradictory truths in our mind, simultaneously, Hope and despair. A life without despair is a life without hope. Holding these two ideas in our head is life itself.
Reverend Ernst Toller
Despair is a development of pride so great that it chooses one's certitude rather than admit God is more creative than we are.
Reverend Ernst Toller
Discernment intersects with Christian life at every moment. Discernment. Listening and waiting for God's wish what action must be taken.
Reverend Joel Jeffers
Even a pastor needs a pastor.
Reverend Ernst Toller
Every act of preservation is an act of creation. Everything preserved renews creation. It's how we participate in creation.
Reverend Joel Jeffers
Global warming, a sea of pornography, hyper violent video games. It's a world without privacy. Each kid isolated, communicating on media. It's a world without hope!
Reverend Ernst Toller
How easily they talk about prayer, those who have never really prayed.
Reverend Ernst Toller
I have decided to keep a journal. Not in a word program or digital file, but in longhand, writing every word out so that every inflection of penmanship, every word chosen, scratched out, revised, is recorded. To set down all my thoughts and the simple events of my day factually and without hiding anything. When writing about oneself, one should show no mercy. I will keep this diary for one year; 12 months. And at the end of that time, it will be destroyed. Shredded, then burnt. The experiment will be over.