Quotes by Theologians - Page 13

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are " but "You are as good as I am."
Theodore Parker
Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
Not to decide is to decide.
Harvey Cox
One glance of Thine creates a day.
Isaac Watts
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
Søren Kierkegaard
The End of every maker is himself.
St. Thomas Aquinas
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King
Change is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tyron Edwards
If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.
Søren Kierkegaard
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
G.K. Chesterton
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
Francois de Fenelon
I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
G.K. Chesterton
Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
A. G. Sertillanges
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
William Barclay
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King
Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.
Robert J. McCracken
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
Jeremy Collier
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
Fortune favors the audacious.
Erasmus
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.
C.S. Lewis
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
G.K. Chesterton
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope self.
Martin Luther
Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
Tyron Edwards
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Søren Kierkegaard
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
G.K. Chesterton
Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
Matthew Henry
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything and I will show you someone who is insecure.
G. Aiken Taylor
Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.
Isaac Barrow
To have no loyalty is to have no dignity and in the end no manhood.
Peter Taylor Forsyth
Certainly this is a duty not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
John Wesley
The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
Martin Luther
Christian life consists of faith and charity.
Martin Luther
Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
C.S. Lewis
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
Søren Kierkegaard
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.
C.S. Lewis
Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.
Erasmus
The sages and heroes of history are receding from us and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.
William Ellery Channing
The great hope of society is individual character.
William Ellery Channing
To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C.S. Lewis
You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.
St. Jerome
The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words the greater the profit.
François Fénelon
The fewer the words the better prayer.
Martin Luther
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.
Jacques-Binigne Bossuet
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin Jowett
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.
Jacques Ellul