Quotes by Theologians

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. Miroslav Volf

Work Business Marriage People Way High Fraud Moral Scholarly Infidelity Committed Different Plagiarism Succumb Standards Even

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. Oswald Chambers

Me Would Put Like Learnt Am Cannot Might Things

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. Reinhold Niebuhr

Truth Together Club Think Other Ought Pretty Could Journalists Come Matched Preachers Close Which Them Cynicism Bring

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Theodore Parker

Self-Respect Individual Sacredness Never Your Violate

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. Thomas Aquinas

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. Thomas Aquinas

Love Hatred Nothing Every Suitable Must Hated Through Caused Precede Contrary Being Loved Which Hence Thing Save

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. Thomas Aquinas

Art God Knowledge Cause Made His Creatures Things

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. Thomas Aquinas

Reality Mind Distinctions Drawn Equivalent Necessarily

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. Tryon Edwards

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws. Adam Clarke

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is. Albert Schweitzer

Love Earth Possess Proof Spirit Highest Which Eternal Really Thing

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character. E. Stanley Jones

Life Character Christ Think Add Virtue Ideal Longer Supreme Stood Human Human Life Standard Code Hence Thing Jesus Jesus Christ

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption. E. Stanley Jones

God Heart Our Wrapped Cross Nailed Redemption His Blood Flesh

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. Ernest Holmes

Righteousness Law Cause Reward Believe Punishment Carrying Effect Just

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do. Ernest Holmes

Good Practice Ought Teach Ever

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to. Ernest Holmes

Great World Religions Principle Differ Much Appear

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others. Ernest Holmes

God Others Some More Gives Accept Because Than

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. Francis Schaeffer

Bible World Compassion Without Surely Ugliest Thing Orthodoxy

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us. Frederick William Faber

Music Nature Natural Song Words World Angel Men Power Lost Earth Way Kind Kind Words Wounds Some Seems Had Putting Come Beyond Causes Were Hearts Which While Us Sang Sweetest

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. Hans Urs von Balthasar

God Man Try Philosophers Philosophy Summit Say Would Seek Attain Divine He Paul Created Theological Why

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. Johannes Tauler

Wisdom Silence Knowledge Man Learning Speak School Live Humility Spirit Through Because Learns How Forgetting Dying To Live By

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. John Calvin

Confidence Intelligence Own Our Worse Out Spirit Block Than Screen