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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls ‘Christophobia .’ Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture – aliens in a land their forefathers’ beliefs and values established and built.

Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.

Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes – it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

Satan is an astute theologian.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can’t pay your child’s way.

The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life. I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life. I’m grateful for people’s opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Justification by grace through faith’ is the theologian’s learned phrase for what Chesterton once called ‘the furious love of G-d.’ He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.