Theologian Quotes

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

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