Theologian Quotes

The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil.

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

Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrugge

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

A mission which becomes a commercial concern may end by ceasing to be a mission

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

Richard C. Halverson

Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness, for truth and trustworthiness, because they have sympathy with us in our best thoughts and holiest aspirations, because they have community of mind in the things of the soul.

Hugh Black (theologian)

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

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

The physicist... engages in complex and difficult calculations, involving the manipulating of ideal, mathematical quantities that, at first glance, are wholly lacking in the music of the living world and the beauty of the resplendent cosmos. It would seem as if there exists no relationship between these quantities and reality. Yet these ideal numbers that cannot be grasped by one's senses, these numbers that only are meaningful from within the system itself, only meaningful as part of abstract mathematical functions, symbolize the image of existence.

Joseph B. Soloveitchik

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

When it comes to abortion, euthanasia, and other sanctity of life issues, we should not suppose that our choice is between reforming the law and working to change the culture. We must do both. The work of legal reform is necessary, though not sufficient, ingredient in the larger project of cultural transformation. Yes, we must change people's hearts. But no, we must not wait for changes of heart before changing the laws. We must do both at the same time, recognizing that just laws help to form good hearts, and unjust laws impede every other effort in the cause of the Gospel of Life.

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

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

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

Charles Fox Parham

'Amen',... in Hebrew, is one of a cluster from a root which signifies reliability, integrity and truth.... Our utterance of it is acknowledgment of God's 'Amen', which always goes before. The recognition of God's integrity and truthfulness, unswerving faithfulness in execution of his promises, is so central to Judaism's faith that 'Amen' may almost be taken as a name for God. We might miss this when we read, in the sixty-fifth chapter of Isaiah, that 'he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth', but the Hebrew here, if rendered literally, would be 'by the God Amen'.

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

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

Say to thy soul, O my soul! If thou wilt sin with the multitude, thou must be shut out of heaven with the multitude, thou must be cast down to hell with the multitude.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

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

God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.

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

William Hendriksen

The conversion of Constantine... was the effective beginning of Christendom, namely, of that particular form of the Christian religion that consists of a strong alliance of Christianity with political and social power, sometimes amounting to the practical identification of Christianity with the dominant forces of the society in which it finds itself.

Douglas John Hall

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

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

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)