Theologian Quotes

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Since Christ is the Word of God and the Truth of God, he may be received even by those who have not heard of his manifestation in the flesh... We have, therefore. the hope that even among the heathen there may be some, like Socrates, who, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit working through the truth of nature and conscience, have found the way of life and salvation.

Augustus Hopkins Strong

From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.

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

Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid

The Spirit has his own existence and personal function in the inner life of God and the economy of salvation: his task is to bring about the unity of the human race in the Body of Christ, but he also imparts to this unity a personal, and hence diversified, character.

John Meyendorff

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

Christian Scriver

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

John Chrysostom

.. for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.

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.

Jesus' disclosure shows that in his very nature God is self-effacing, whereas Christian orthodoxy has thought of him as the opposite; majestic, glorious and triumphal.

Hugh Montefiore

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

John Nelson Darby

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

Friedrich von Hügel

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

Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.

Greg Boyd (theologian)

When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.

William Hendriksen

The concupiscence of the eyes touches the soul at a higher level than that of the flesh, and is consequently even more subtle and dangerous. Everyone can distinguish sins of the flesh, and most people endeavor to keep themselves from any serious entanglement with them, but it is quite possible to become considerably involved in the concupiscence of the eyes without being in the least aware of the fact.

Frederic Harton

Yet, when all is said and done, birthdays are mere records of time, not registers of distance. They are chronometers, not speedometers. They tell us how long we have been upon the road, not how far we have travelled.

Frank W. Boreham

It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

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".

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.