781 quotes by theologians for you to enjoy

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Best Good You Better Friends Very Than Your Imagine

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Once Intuition Clear Conception Whole

The public seldom forgive twice. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Politics Seldom Forgive Public Twice

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself! Johannes Tauler

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. Johannes Tauler

Saying Prayer Thoughts You Believe Reciting Consists Beads Allow Never Mere True Roam Psalms While Your Many Babbling

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received. Johannes Tauler

God Way Gifts Lies Touch He Another Equally Inequality His Quite Moves Wants Which Much Warnings Received Desires

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin. Johannes Tauler

Grace Fall Lose Apt Though Only Mortal Sin Nevertheless Make Ready Sins Themselves Us Inclined Even Harm

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart. Johannes Tauler

The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures. John Drane

Life Appropriate Ways Significance Would Would-Be Selective Written Gospels Demonstrate Were His Cultures Accounts Intended Same Different Different Cultures Teachings Reason Biographies Present Jesus

I can't die now, I have so much work to do. John Gresham Machen

Work Die Much Now

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. John Gresham Machen

Bible Conservative Criticism Liberal Could Studies New Also Alternative Testament Accompanied Provide Intellectually German New Testament Theology Satisfying

Afternoon classes - that evil invention! John Gresham Machen

Evil Invention Classes Afternoon

The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology. John Gresham Machen

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