Theologian Quotes - Page 3

• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Peace, Money

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• Where our work is, there let our joy be.

  Tertullian

  Inspirational, Christian, Work

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• ...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Failure, Power

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.79, Paulist Press

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• The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature... We do not need to beg Him to bless us, He simply cannot help it. Therefore God is enough! God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  God, Religious, Time

  "God of All Comfort".

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• Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.

  Albert Mohler

  Faith, Christian, Believe

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.16, Baker Books

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• The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

  Jonathan Sacks

  God, Faith, Religious

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• If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Religious, Jesus, Matter

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• The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

  Richard J. Foster

  Intelligent, Numbers, People

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Letting Go, Religious

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• What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

  Emil Brunner

  Life, Hope, Spiritual

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• God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Religious, Truth, Hypocrite

  Ronald J. Sider (2005). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Money, Writing

  Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti (2007). “Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing”, p.198, Shambhala Publications

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• Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Trust, God, Faith

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• God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

  John Gresham Machen

  God, Time, Hands

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• God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

  R. C. Sproul

  God, Faith, Christian

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• the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

  N. T. Wright

  God, Religious, Future

  FaceBook post by N. T. Wright from Jul 21, 2013

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• Your mind was made to know and love God.

  John Piper

  Love, God, Christian

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• I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Origin Of Life, Design

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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• Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self. Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Religious, Jesus, Real

  "Christ and the Meaning of Life".

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• The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, God, Faith

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Life, God, Faith

  "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Life, Marriage

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