20th-century Theologian Quotes

(The Americans) advanced to within 500 meters from the Holy Mosque (in Najaf). On this occasion, I must thank and praise those in that complex who resist these bloodthirsty wolves.

God is God; you are but one of His creatures. Your only joy is to be found in obeying Him, your true fulfillment is to be found in worshiping Him, your only wisdom is to be found in trusting and knowing Him.

Sinclair Ferguson

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If there might be space aliens, we can assume there are." "If the idea of Atlantis is not impossible, we can take it for granted." "If the traditional view of gospel authorship cannot be definitievely debunked, we can go right on assuming it's truth." No, you can't.

Robert M. Price

When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.

Helmut Thielicke

The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately

John Howard Yoder

The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

Robert McAfee Brown

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

Lesslie Newbigin

All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.

Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.

Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world.

David Wilkerson

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

Walter Brueggemann

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

James W. Douglass

Working constantly may be visible proof that deep inside we do not trust God.

There is a radical difference between the Christian expectation of the resurrection of the dead and the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul.... Although Christianity later established a link between these two beliefs, and today the average Christian confuses them completely, I see no reason to hide what I and the majority of scholars consider to be the truth.... The life and thought of the New Testament are entirely dominated by faith in the resurrection.... The whole man, who is really dead, is brought back to life by a new creative act of God.