Theologian Quotes

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.

It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror.

You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

A dog barks when his master is attacked.

I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill.

Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral.

Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

We can choose to be grateful no matter what.

I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear.

Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

There are two great days in a persons life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.

You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then.

If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.

Change your thinking, change your life.

Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.