Quotes of: Luther Keyword

Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'

Elaine Pagels

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

Eugene H. Peterson

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

Francis Chan

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

George Gillespie

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

John Nelson Darby

Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.

John Hales

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

Karl Barth

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Matthew Henry

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Francis Schaeffer

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.

John Ortberg

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

Pope Francis

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

John Ortberg

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

John Ortberg

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

Francis Chan

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

Francis Schaeffer

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

Francis Schaeffer

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

Charles Hodge

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

Claudio Hummes

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

George Whitefield