Theologian Quotes

Martin Luther

Paul of Tarsus

John Calvin

Erasmus

Joseph Priestley

Emanuel Swedenborg

John Henry Newman

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

Pasquier Quesnel

... hunting of a beast, inventing of an instrument, laying down the foundations of a new system of economy, setting up a new form or government, kindling a war, or making peace. All these activities of man depend upon his intellectual ability. Emotions creeping in cannot but spoil them.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones…we can find joy in anticipating our future reunion.

Of course, the human soul will always have the power to reject God, for choice is essential to its nature, but I cannot believe that anyone will finally do this.

Leslie Weatherhead

All truth is a shadow, except the last; but every truth is a substance in its own place, though it be but a shadow in another place; and the shadow is a true shadow, as the substance is a true substance.

Isaac Penington

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.

William Mackergo Taylor

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

(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.

The appearance of chance will always bear a proportion to the ignorance of the observer.

They are separated from the mass, set apart that they may be a peculiar people to the Lord.

Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrugge

Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.

It is in the lungs, consequently, that the mixture (of the inspired air with the blood) takes place, and it is in the lungs also, not in the heart, that the crimson colour of the blood is acquired.

Michael Servetus

No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.

Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good.... With this method... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

James Freeman Clarke

On every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.