Quotes by Theologians - Page 10

Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
The honester the man the worse luck.
John Ray
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer
To help all created things that is the measure of our responsibility to be helped by all that is the measure of our hope.
Gerald Vann
We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.
William Ellery Channing
The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.
Robert J. McCracken
Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
Carter Heyward
There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.
C. H. Dodd
Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.
Dorothy Solle
In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.
Richard Baxter
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately
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.
William Barclay
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Hell is indefinite.
Charles Williams
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.
C.S. Lewis
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert Schweitzer
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
None so deaf as those that will not hear.
Matthew Henry
Don't hate it's too big a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King
Hatred is self-punishment.
Hosea Ballou
Who can refute a sneer?
William Paley
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
G.K. Chesterton
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
G.K. Chesterton
Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.
William Barclay
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tyron Edwards
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Erasmus
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
Elton Trueblood
Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.
James Freeman Clarke
Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
Robert J. McCracken
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Søren Kierkegaard
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.
Hugh Black
To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion to be worthy not respectable and wealthy not rich to study hard think quietly talk gently act frankly to listen to the stars and birds to babes and sages with open heart to bear on cheerfully do all bravely awaiting occasions worry never in a word to like the spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.
William Ellery Channing
Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.
Saint Augustine
Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
The true object of all human life is play.
G.K. Chesterton
If we cannot live so as to be happy let us at least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann von Fichte
Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.
G.K. Chesterton
Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.
St. Augustine
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
Isaac Watts
The safety of the State is the highest law.
Justinian
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.
Theodore Parker
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.
G.K. Chesterton
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was but it does not matter it does not affect one's faith.
Abraham Heschel
Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
Bayazid Al-Bistami
You are accepted! ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything do not perform anything do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.
Paul Tillich
God uses lust to impel men to marry ambition to office avarice to earning and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
Martin Luther
A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.
Jonathan Edwards
All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will or rather our own will is our separation from God.
William Law
No statement about God is simply literally true. God is far more than can be measured described defined in ordinary language or pinned down to any particular happening.
David Jenkins
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.
Meister Eckhart