Theologian Quotes - Page 5

• Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Wise, Expectations

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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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• 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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• I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life.
  The primary reason the old idea of rescuing the fallen is no good is that there never was a time when we fell from perfection into sin.

  John Shelby Spong

  Life, Religious, Jesus

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Life, Christian, Religious

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• When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it.

  John Polkinghorne

  Nature, Everything Happens For A Reason, Law

  "Science Finds God". www.washingtonpost.com. July 20, 1998.

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• The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.

  John Gresham Machen

  Family, Christian, School

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• The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Fear, Weakness, Too Much

  "Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture". Book by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, edited by Patrick Riley, 1990.

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• Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Common Sense, Religion

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• A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God

  Paul Washer

  Men

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• True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

  R. C. Sproul

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

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• Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology.

  Carl E. Olson

  Should, Theology, Knows

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• Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Mean, Perfection

  1934 Reflections on the End of an Era.

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• He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.

  Martin Luther

  Four, Scripture, Distinguished

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

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• Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could their mere arrangement produce a noisy, colourful, world in which day followed night and animals generated their own kind? Instead of a world created, cared, for and supervised by supernatural persons, the Epicureans appeared to the theologians to be assigning everything to chance. The latter were appalled by Lucretius's view of religion as cruel and oppressive and by the Epicurean insistence that death is the end of all experience.

  Catherine Wilson

  Animal, Night, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Pain, Suffering, Remember

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• Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Betrayal

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• Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears, declaring openly to Christ your thoughts and deeds, so that you may be justified.

  Andrew of Crete

  Religious, Jesus, Rain

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• The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

  Geerhardus Vos

  Love, God, Lying

  Geerhardus Vos (2005). “The Letters of Geerhardus Vos”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company

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• There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

  Abraham Kuyper

  Religious, Jesus, Squares

  Abraham Kuyper, James D. Bratt (1998). “Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader”, p.461, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Love, Beauty, Hope

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• The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.

  Marcus Borg

  Life, Relationship, Change

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• The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.

  Wolfhart Pannenberg

  Religious, Jesus, Strong

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• When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

  Ibn Hazm

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Health

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• Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Order, Civilization

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