Theology quotations

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◆ Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

- John Piper99

◆ Jerry Falwell said that the reason that September 11th happened, the reason that God allowed it to happen, was because of certain people in our country. People like, and I'm quoting, 'the pagans,' which is a motorcycle group. Feminists; he brought up feminists. [...] And I couldn't believe it, he said that God had actually talked to him and said, these were the people. That was the reason. It was those people, and that was the reason God allowed this to happen. And I thought, 'That's odd.' Because God had called me twelve hours before, and He said the reason He was upset was because of people like Jerry Falwell.

- Lewis Black99

◆ You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

- John Calvin99

◆ When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It's often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

- John Piper99

◆ Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ One man's pornography is another man's theology.

- Clive Barker99

◆ If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

- Flannery O'Connor99

◆ Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

- Henri J.M. Nouwen99

◆ Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer99

◆ Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

- Karen Armstrong99

◆ He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

- Jonathan Edwards99

◆ The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

- Augustine of Hippo99

◆ The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

- Peter Kreeft99