Theologian Quotes

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

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

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

Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give.

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

Catherine Booth

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 teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.

Working constantly may be visible proof that deep inside we do not trust God.

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

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

It's a committing murder before hand, to destroy that which is to be born.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

Friedrich Tholuck

Gay subject–subject consciousness is more compatible with Buddhist non‐duality than the hetero subject–object consciousness. It can be claimed, therefore, that Buddha Nature, and Buddhism itself, is queer.

It is a theory of nature, that system of things which allows a plant to grow, an animal to graze, and a man to think, fully as much as it allows the sun to be eclipsed or bodies to be in motion or at rest.

Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge

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 world is anxiously waiting to see what Jesus Christ can do in, by, for, and through one man wholly given to him - God-led. You can be that man.

The stinking puddle from which usury, thievery and robbery arises is our lords and princes. They make all creatures their property—the fish in the water, the birds in the air, the plant in the earth must all be theirs. Then they proclaim God's commandments among the poor and say, "You shall not steal." They oppress everyone, the poor peasant, the craftsman are skinned and scraped.

Thomas Müntzer

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

He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.

It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

True believing Christians are sheep among wolves.... They employ neither worldly sword nor war, since with them killing is absolutely renounced.

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

Shailer Mathews

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

Georgia Harkness

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

Theological condemnation of others, which breaks off fellowship in either judgment or contempt, is impermissible.

Ernst Käsemann