Theologian Quotes

God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

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

Edgar Young Mullins

Placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not better, so the optimum scale of human economy in relation to the total economy becomes basically a question of sustainability. When the effects of the economy on the environment undercut the possibility of its own continuance, the scale is too large.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

Joseph Lightfoot

Our noblest duty is to strive to reduce oppression, to be more [stringent] in our implementation of Islamic law... and to weaken the control of oppressive and tyrannical regimes over the oppressed. These [actions] can [hasten] the return of the Hidden Imam...

Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi

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

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.

The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

David Steindl-Rast

The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.

James Luther Adams

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

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

He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.

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

The sun discovers atoms, though they be invisible by candle-light, yet that makes them dance naked in his beams.

Nathaniel Culverwell

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.

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

William Hendriksen

The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.

Brooke Westcott

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.

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

People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others.... These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism".... Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?!

... 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.

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

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

John Cotton (minister)

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

Pasquier Quesnel

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