Quotes by Theologians - Page 8

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies prayerless work and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil mocks at our wisdom but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.
William Law
Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
There is no hope but in prayer.
Andrew Bonar
By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible.
O. Hallesby
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
Matthew Henry
The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Søren Kierkegaard
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
Bernard of Clairvaux
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.
Saint Augustine
Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.
Jelaluddin Rumi
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
Tyron Edwards
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly to act nobly he must think nobly.
William Ellery Channing
A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.
William Ellery Channing
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
G.K. Chesterton
Poetry is the Devil's wine.
St. Augustine
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
Isaac Watts
In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.
Bernard Lonergan
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. Chesterton
We conquer by continuing.
George Matheson
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.
Leo the Great
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to not in an exemption from suffering.
Francois de Fenelon
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.
William Barclay
What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.
Søren Kierkegaard
Fear is sand in the machinery of life.
E. Stanley Jones
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.
Henry H. Tweedy
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
James Hastings
Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.
Saint John Chrysostom
Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness.
Johann L. von Mosheim
Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
G.K. Chesterton
Vigilance in watching opportunity tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success.
Austin Phelps
What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.
Saint Augustine
Time is the product of changing realities beings existences.
Nicholas Berdyaev
Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.
Moses Mendelssohn
Have a time and place for everything and do everything in its time and place and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
Tyron Edwards
Come let us give a little time to folly ... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
Saint Bonaventura
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
Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Love and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life time unenriched by experience creative endeavor enjoyment and suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God to respect Time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
G.K. Chesterton
The night is dark and I am far from home.
John Henry Newman
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.
Martin Luther
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
G.K. Chesterton
Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera that is provides a language for us to speak of ourselves as we have always known we should speak.
Hamish Swanston
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G.K. Chesterton
The devil does not stay where music is.
Martin Luther
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
Saint Augustine
Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer