Theologian Quotes

O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel.

John Mason Neale

Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.

Julian of Norwich

What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon... or a husband.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

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

Catherine Booth

Natural man's sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.

The policy is obliteration, openly acknowledged. This is not a justifiable act of war.

Of the saturation bombing of Berlin

George Bell (bishop)

But as Geographers use to place Seas upon that place of the Globe which they know not: so chronologers, who are near of kin to them, use to blot out ages past, which they know not. They drown those Countries which they know not: These with cruel pen kill the times they heard not of, and deny which they know not.

Isaac La Peyrère

Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime,—
A rose-red city—half as old as Time!

Whoever has a daughter and does not bury her alive, nor insult her nor favour his son over her, Allah will enter him into Paradise.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal

To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

Harry A. Ironside

We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.

Albert M. Wolters

To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

It's said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That's of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it's said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

Charles Williams (British writer)

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

Tim Keller (pastor)

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

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.

Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we live- through our lives as we connect our Christian belief with true Christian living.

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

James W. Douglass

People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein.

Adolf von Harnack

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

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

Georgia Harkness