Georgia Harkness Quotes

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

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• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • Discipline
  • New

• Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Teach
  • Realize
  • Doctrine

• In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Taught
  • Doctrine

• We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Determine
  • Theology

• I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • God
  • America

• Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Truth

• Doctrine does matter.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Matter
  • Doctrine
  • Does

• If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Way
  • Hell
  • Doctrine

• What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Bible
  • Doctrine

• The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Game

• At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Wonder

• Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

  

  Zazie
  • End
  • Disappears
  • Descending

• What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Ends
  • Salvation
  • Theology

• Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Force
  • Theology
  • Failed

• Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Design
  • Intelligent
  • Theology

• Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

  

  William Ames
  • Teaching
  • Doctrine
  • Theology

• There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Books

• No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Goal
  • Divine
  • Doctrine

• This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Exist
  • Doctrine
  • Builds

• The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Nature
  • Intellect
  • Doctrine

• I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

  

  Susan Choi
  • Writing
  • Characters
  • Happen

• The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Doctrine
  • Theology
  • Disappears