American Theologian Quotes

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 great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

James Emery White

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. This relationship is not external or extrinsic to our identity but wells up as the defining truth from our deepest being.

Elizabeth Johnson (theologian)

More and more, science has become not only increasingly necessary as a foundation for professional skill, but has come to be regarded as the most valuable instrument of culture.

Henry Preserved Smith

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

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.

As the parish goes, so goes the faith of the people.

Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit.

Kenneth E. Hagin

Before saying 'I disagree' be sure you can say 'I understand.'

That Jesus' followers (and later Paul) had resurrection experiences is, in my judgment, a fact. What the reality was that gave rise to the experiences I do not know.

There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

The Son of God, prompted by the same infinite love, laid aside his divine glory and mode of existence, emptied himself exchanged the form of God for the form of a servant, humbled himself and became obedient, even unto the death of the cross.

The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

William Stringfellow

Logic is like sitting on the bank of a river and deducing its contents from a fish caught in its waters.

Edgar Young Mullins

But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right to determine for themselves the true, the good, and the beautiful. They became, in their understanding, their own authority, and their fallen descendants ever since that time have claimed a similar autonomy from God

Robert L. Reymond

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

D. Elton Trueblood

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Douglas Wilson (theologian)

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything we do is to be a means of salvation. The slothful person is unwilling to do what God wants because of the effort it takes to do it. Sloth becomes a sin when it slows down and even brings to a halt the energy we must expend in using the means to salvation.

There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.