Quotes by Theologians

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. Thomas Aquinas

Time Jokes Mind Relaxation Make From Time To Time Use Requisite Deeds Playful

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. Thomas Aquinas

War Men Live Stars Harmony Minds Minute About Someone Know Most Without How Go Declaring Barely Billions

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. Thomas Aquinas

Love God First Live Harmony Madly Know How Same Need

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. Albert Schweitzer

Man Personality Ethics Own Secure Directed Perfection His Activity Inner

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer

Ethics Compassion Living Must Embraces Only Attain Take Limit Does Itself Breadth Which Mankind Depth Root Full Creatures Living Creatures

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. Albert Schweitzer

You Suffering Yourself Think Sight Occasionally Which Spare

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religion Obedience Better Hundred One Act Than Act Sermons

The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues. John Wycliffe

Faith Knowledge People Language Ought Our Ghost Since Doctrines Understand End Familiar Scriptures Them Holy Holy Ghost Should Believers Tongues

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many. Stanley Hauerwas

Friendship Loneliness Food You Charity Money Gift Another Does Overwhelm Lack May Mean Poor Grips Means Many Lives Extend

Beware of the person of one book. Thomas Aquinas

Book One Book Beware Person

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. Thomas Aquinas

Natural Self-Love Right

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You Other Corridor Running Direction Wrong Along Train Board Use

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Relationship People Light Omit Must More Learn Regard Less Suffer

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. John Calvin

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Paul Tillich

Courage Unacceptable Oneself Spite Accept Being

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. Paul Tillich

Cruelty Others Ourselves Towards Also Always

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich

Failure Risks Never He Fails His Forgiven Being Who Whole

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. William Barclay

Time Good People Duty Our Ways Surely

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. Albert Schweitzer

Time Good You Man World Worth Remember Somewhere Own Live Every Too Way Must Some Seek Brothers Give True Fellow Fellow Man Always True Worth His Realize Your Here Every Man

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Obedient Only He Who Believes

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. Oswald Chambers

God Enemy Our Foe Only He Look Souls Us Conquered