Quotes about Author
I do think that it is impossible to do Christian theology with integrity in America without asking the question, What has the gospel to do with the black struggle for liberation?
— James H. Cone
Appeals to reason and religion do not change the balance of power, because both are used to defend the interests of oppressors.
— James H. Cone
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
— James Madison
People love sin. Sin hardens their hearts. Therefore, they will not receive the gospel of the kingdom of God when it is preached to them.
— James Montgomery Boice
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
— St. Basil
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.
— Isabel Allende
I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.
— Billy Graham
The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'
— Philip Schaff
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
— Nelson Mandela
Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
— Michael Novak
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.
— Stanley Hauerwas