Quotes by : Thomas C. Oden

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent....

Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely....

Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.

Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning....

Neurotic guilt scans the horizons of the past relentlessly seeking out the most deplorable, hideous,....

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical....

God loves us toughly enough not to allow us to be happy with our sins. The recollection of sin rightly....

There are many who occasionally attend church and who are trying experimentally to be Christians, yet....

Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon....