American Theologian Quotes

Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

Russell D. Moore
Russell D. Moore
I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over again, and will probably be lost, because the people are already ignorant of its true basis and conditions.

Robert Lewis Dabney
Robert Lewis Dabney
Jesus' words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

Authentic Christianity is not just about keeping and protecting the faith and keeping the rules. It is even more than living to deepen your relationship with Jesus. Authentic Christianity, the real deal, is about embracing all of these important elements.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

Never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you

Walter Wink
Walter Wink
The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we are in union with Christ and are called to live in our baptismal identity in his resurrection. This essential theme of Easter cannot be communicated in a day. It takes a season.

The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing.

It's easy to hope when there are evidences all around of how good God is. But to have the audacity to hope when that love is not evident... that is a true test.... To take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to hope—make music and praise God on and with whatever it is you've got left, even though you can't see what God is going to do.

Jeremiah Wright
Jeremiah Wright
You were created as a masterpiece and you are one of God's expressions of beauty. Short, tall, thin, thick, freckles, big eyes, small ones... it doesn't matter.

It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

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

We cannot hope to bring about effective change unless we are willing to BE changed.

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.

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

God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

Harry A. Ironside
Harry A. Ironside
Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.

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

Kenneth E. Hagin
Kenneth E. Hagin
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.

Botany differs from century to century as men learn more; but the plants and trees remain the same.

Henry Sloane Coffin
Henry Sloane Coffin
Religion needs science, to protect it from religion's greatest danger, superstition.