Quotes by Theologians - Page 2

He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream.
G.K. Chesterton
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
Benjamin Whichcote
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. M. Taylor
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Erasmus
Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.
Landrum P. Leavell
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
Fear is the absence of faith.
Paul Tillich
Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Saint Augustine
Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway.
Fredrick Buechner
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
G.K. Chesterton
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
Isaac Watts
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
G.K. Chesterton
Who can refute a sneer?
William Paley
Hush my dear lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard they bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
Isaac Watts
Love and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
G.K. Chesterton
Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.
Bishop John Jewell
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
G.K. Chesterton
We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.
Pierre Nicole
Prevention is better than cure.
Erasmus
Lord make me chaste - but not yet.
St. Augustine
No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
William Ellery Channing
He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
Saint Bernard
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.
Isaac Watts
If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.
Saint Augustine
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?
Martin Marty
One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
G.K. Chesterton
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
H. P. Liddon
He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.
Floyd V. Filson
Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.
Frederick W. Robertson
Soften my hard self-opinionatedness which time has hardened so exceedingly!
Gertrude the Great
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Erasmus
In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
Bernard Lonergan
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
Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham J. Heschel
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
Tyron Edwards
Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Without risk faith is an impossibility.
Søren Kierkegaard
If we are intended for great ends we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do what no other can do.
William Ellery Channing
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
Riots are the voices of the unheard.
Martin Luther King
They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.
Ballou Hosea
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter.
Martin Luther
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton
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
When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.
G.K. Chesterton
The church exists for the sake of those outside it.
William Temple
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.
Martin Luther