Quotes by Theologians - Page 12

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
C.S. Lewis
There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.
Hosea Ballou
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was defined before it existed.
G.K. Chesterton
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
Carter Lindberg
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
Martin Luther King
Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Faith is obedience nothing else.
Emil Brunner
Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.
George A. Buttrick
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
John Calvin
Faith is God's work within us.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Faith is the little night-light that burns in a sick-room as long as it is there the obscurity is not complete we turn towards it and await the daylight.
Abbe Henri Huvelin
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
Paul Tillich
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
Martin Luther
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Faith is a practical attitude of the will.
John MacMurray
Faith is a total attitude of the self.
John Macquarrie
Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.
Philipp Melanchthon
Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God and the things of God.
John Wesley
Faith is the proper name of religious experience.
John Baillie
Without risk faith is an impossibility.
Søren Kierkegaard
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
William Barclay
Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.
Saint Augustine
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
C.S. Lewis
It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.
John Calvin
Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Saint Augustine
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.
Leo Baeck
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
Frederick W. Robertson
Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.
Frederick W. Robertson
It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
Saint Augustine
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop WC. Magee
He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.
Richard Whately
The worst of faces still is human.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Of two evils choose the least.
Erasmus
Never throw mud. You may miss your mark but you must have dirty hands.
Joseph Parker
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
G.K. Chesterton
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always though in the midst of sorrows and possess all things though destitute of everything.
James Freeman Clarke
Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.
Hosea Ballou
Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
Edward L. Curtis
Love and do what you like.
St. Augustine
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
C.S. Lewis
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
G.K. Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G.K. Chesterton
Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou
It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.
William Ellery Channing
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain But the Lord is risen today Christ hath brought us life again Wherefore let us all rejoice Singing loud with cheerful voice Hallelujah!
Martin Luther
For when the wine is in the wit is out.
Thomas Becon
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.
E. Stanley Jones
When I was young I was sure of everything in a few years having been mistaken a thousand times I was not half so sure of most things as I was before at present I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.
John Wesley
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Orthodoxy my Lord said Bishop Warburton in a whisper - "orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy."
Joseph Priestley
Who loves me will love my dog also.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou