Quotes by Alister E. Mcgrath - Page 1

We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.
Alister E. Mcgrath / Theologian
Earth
Heaven
Homeland
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Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
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Rooted
Trustworthiness
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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
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Imagination
Gatekeepers
Soul
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Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.
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Challenges
People
Triumph
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
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Poet
Teaching
Virtue
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If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.
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Might
Reality
Thinking
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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Desire
Pleasure
Satisfied
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All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.
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Important
Lying
Things In Life
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Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
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Climate
Doe
May
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At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
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Atheism
Atheist
Oxford
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One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
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Calvinism
Ideas
Introduction
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Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.
Alister E. Mcgrath / Theologian
Life Is
Longing
Work Out
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The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
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Eye
Offering
Reading
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The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
Alister E. Mcgrath / Theologian
Existence
Prove It
Theologian
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We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.
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Religious
Social
Thinking
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Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.
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Heaven
Light
Mind
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The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
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Quality
Belief
Believe
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For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.
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Luther
Promise
Trustworthiness
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Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
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Agreement
Together
Way
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Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.
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Teacher
Example
Spiritual
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To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.
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Doors
Integrity
Perspective
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The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.
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Focus
Heaven
Order
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Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
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Clue
Inspirational Life
World
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The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world
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Calling
Ideas
Leaving
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Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
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Country
Evidence
Reason
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Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.
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Answers
Limits
Reality
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We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.
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Decision
Needs
Stories
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Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
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Able
Grace
May
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Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.
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Biblical
Rivers
Views
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Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.
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Christianity
Facts
Tasks
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A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.
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Doe
Lying
Mean
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The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.
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Cost
Found
Meaning Of Life
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The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.
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Appreciate
Christian
Reminders
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Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.
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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.
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Argument
Atheism
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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.
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Intolerance
Paradox
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The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.
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Evil
Law
Motivation
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The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.
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Commitment
Light
People
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If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.
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Imagination
Focus
Order
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Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.
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Intellectual
Lying
People
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The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.
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War
Christian
Hangover
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The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology of the future. Similar ideas may have been under development around the same time in Prague and Haarlem. But in business, the key question is not about who else is in the race, it's about who gets there first. Johannes Gutenberg was the first to make the new technology work, ensuring his place in any history of the human race.
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Communication
Technology
Keys
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For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images flashed in front of our eyes, as Calvin attempts to convey the multiplicity of ways in which the creation witnesses to its Creator: it is like a visible garment, which the invisible God dons in order to make himself known; it is like a book in which the name on the Creator is written as its author; it is like a theater, in which the glory of God is publicly displayed; it is like a mirror, in which the works and wisdom of God are reflected.
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Book
Eye
Mirrors
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Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ. Just as the figure of David lay hidden within the marble, discernible only to the eye of its creator, so the image of God (however tarnished by sin) lies within us, see and known by God Himself. Yet God loves us while we are still sinners. He doesn't have to wait until we stop sinning. Acceptance of His love is a major step along the road that leads to our liberation from the tyranny of sin.
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Acceptance
Eye
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