Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Alister E. McGrath
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alister E. McGrath
Views
Infant
Biblical
Recant
Closest
Warrant
Allies
Formerly
Tied
Warrants
River
Drowned
Held
Refusing
Rivers
Baptism
More quotes by Alister E. McGrath
We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.
Alister E. McGrath
For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
Alister E. McGrath
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
Alister E. McGrath
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
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'.
Alister E. McGrath
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.
Alister E. McGrath
Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
Alister E. McGrath