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Marquart on "Mysticism":
It begins in.................. Mist
It centers on................. I
It results in.................scism
Marquart on "Fanaticism":
It "feels" but knows not about what...
Faith, on the other hand, does not "feel", but it does know what!
Marquart on "Worldliness":
Luther once compared the world with a drunken peasant--
who is only in the middle of the road only when he is between ditches!
Marquart on the "Reformed":
The Reformed essentially have two churches-- the Visible and the Invisible,
and never the twain shall meet!
We Lutherans have one church, with two "aspects" of it, revealed & hidden.
Marquart on "Prayer":
The Pharisee in the temple was not taking to God--
he was in reality only talking to himself!
Marquart on the Church of England:
It is three churches:Marquart on ecumenism:
High and crazy
Low and lazy
Broad and hazy
Some of these mergers between churches resemble two drunks trying to walk down a road. They have to lean on each other to keep from utter collapse.