Theologian Quotes - Page 4

• The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

  Julian of Norwich

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Nov 25, 2014

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• Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Love, God, Christian

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Basketball, Thank You

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• He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Christianity

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

  James Montgomery Boice

  God, Religious, Future

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• The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Religion, Church, Christianity

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• Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Depression, Anger

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Life, Jesus, Optimistic

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• Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

  R. C. Sproul

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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  Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Heartbroken

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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• Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

  Denis Diderot

  Religion, Different, Revelations

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Heaven, Atheism, Scripture

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

  David Hume

  Malady, Seems, Bigotry

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• Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them, the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death effective by bringing the elect to faith and repentance, thereby causing them to willingly obey the gospel. The entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and is by grace alone. Thus God, not man, determines who will be the recipients of the gift of salvation.

  Loraine Boettner

  God, Faith, Religious

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• The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Love, Inspirational, Truth

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• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

  John of Damascus

  Life, God, Faith

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• Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

  Dorothee Solle

  Death, Fear, Blessing

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• The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Faith, Real, Religion

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• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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• To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

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• Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

  John Polkinghorne

  Religious, Knowledge, Science

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• To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  God, Christian, Religious

  Henri Nouwen (2011). “The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life”, p.27, Orbis Books

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