Quotes by Theologians

For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they believe an omnipotent God should do. It reasons that if God is all powerful, then certainly He would not have taken millions of years to make the earth. Norman Geisler

God Faith Young Believe Omnipotent Earth Kind Would Intuition All-Powerful Some Seems He Taken Powerful Make Years Then Should Certainly Reasons Belief Based Millions Millions Of Years

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. Origen

Wisdom God Good Change Son Quality Pure Every Changed Respects Good Quality Sincere Alteration Him Glory His Essential Being Cannot Which Converted Incapable Therefore

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise. Origen

Wise Word Preaching Easily Would Only Deliver Also Him Gospel Unwise His Debtor Greeks Barbarians Paul Who Agree

Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in. Origen

Truth Faith Battle Christ Convictions Soldiers Must Lies Be Prepared Allow Never True Always False Them Far Prepared Now Creep

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king. Orson Pratt

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. Oswald Chambers

Education Mind Blessed Books

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. Paul Tillich

Faith State Concerned Ultimately Being

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Paul Tillich

Man Become Destiny He Supposed Make Himself His Asked Fulfill

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge. Peter Lombard

Love Knowledge Mind Trinity Remains Knows Itself Loves Therefore

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study. Philip Schaff

Class Bible Culture Simple Matter Men Style Every Religious General Study Inexhaustible Child Grade Wants Nourishment Thinker Profoundest Adapted

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. Reinhold Niebuhr

War Democracy Peace Slow Once Indeed Embarked Martial Rather Reluctant Make Venture Equally Than Tolerable Vindictive

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy Problems Solutions Finding

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. Richard Hooker

Change Better Made Worse Without Even Inconvenience

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God. Roger Williams

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God. Rowan Williams

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. Rowan Williams

Health You Wealth Poverty National Society Strictly Tell Significant Economists Terms Coming Viability Acknowledge Little Average Measures Income

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful. Said Nursi

Beautiful Mirror

Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart. Said Nursi

God Forgiveness Heart Light Path Snake Worm Unless Unbelief Seeking Sin Leads Until Swiftly Each Belief Grows

If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit. Said Nursi

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security. Samuel Rutherford

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will. Samuel Rutherford

Will Evil Our Ourselves Indulge Know Make Idol Verily