To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.
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...
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C.s. Lewis
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
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Stanley Hauerwas
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I...
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Augustine Of Hippo
More Quotes By Alister E. McGrath
For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.
Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.
Science proceeds by inference, rather than by the deduction of mathematical proof. A series of observations is accumulated, forcing the deeper question: What must be true if we are to explain what is observed? What "big picture" of reality offers the best fit to what...
Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.
Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.
