Quotes by Theologians - Page 9

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Martin Luther
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
C.S. Lewis
Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.
Richard Whately
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
Albert Schweitzer
To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.
G.K. Chesterton
I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Erasmus
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
C.S. Lewis
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
G.K. Chesterton
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
Leo Baeck
Every man is a volume if you know how to read them.
William Ellery Channing
Hush my dear lie still and slumber Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
Isaac Watts
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
What we can do for another is the test of powers what we can suffer is the test of love.
Brooke Foss Westcott
Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
Logic is neither a science nor an art but a dodge.
Benjamin Jowett
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.
C.S. Lewis
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
Albert Schweitzer
For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.
Paul Tillich
When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
Saint Augustine
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
Lead kindly Light amid the encircling gloom Lead Thou me on! The night is dark and I am far from home - Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet I do not ask to see The distant scene - one step enough for me.
John Henry Newman
No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)
Erasmus
Christian life consists in faith and charity.
Martin Luther
It is a misery to be born a pain to live a trouble to die.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.
Albert Schweitzer
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
Growth is the only evidence of life.
Cardinal Newman
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
The character of human life like the character of the human condition like the character of all life is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil the true and false the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.
Paul Tillich
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
G.K. Chesterton
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
Søren Kierkegaard
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
St. Augustine
He that is not jealous is not in love.
St. Augustine
Without love benevolence becomes egotism.
Martin Luther King
Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
St. Augustine
Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.
John Wesley
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
Søren Kierkegaard
Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate bad as it is at least treats the neighbour as a thou whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned is manifest in the phrase T couldn't care less.'
Joseph Fletcher
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
William Ellery Channing
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
The material universe exists only in the mind.
Jonathan Edwards
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
Matthew Henry
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth
Humanity is the Son of God.
Theodore Parker
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
Abraham J. Heschel
I love my country better than my family but I love humanity better than my country.
François Fénelon
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.
Albert Schweitzer
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
Martin Marty
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
Emil Brunner
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Tertullian
Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.
Jeremy Collier