Theologian Quotes

List of top sayings and quotations by famous theologians like Al-Ghazali, John Calvin and Albert Schweitzer


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

    — Albert Schweitzer
    806
  • 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.

    — Albert Schweitzer
    719
  • 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.

    — Reinhold Niebuhr
    526
  • 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.

    — John Wesley
    445
  • 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.

    — Albert Schweitzer
    386
  • Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

    — John Calvin
    362
  •  image quote by Albert Schweitzer

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

    — Albert Schweitzer
    40
  • To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

    — Al-Ghazali
    348
  • Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

    — Al-Ghazali
    343
  • 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.

    — Al-Ghazali
    339
  • When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

    — John Calvin
    336
  • 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.

    — John Calvin
    332
  • Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

    — Al-Ghazali
    331
  •  image quote by Al-Ghazali

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

    — Al-Ghazali
    38
  • Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

    — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    329
  • Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

    — Al-Ghazali
    322
  • Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

    — Al-Ghazali
    321
  • A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

    — Al-Ghazali
    276
  • Related Authors

    • Al-Ghazali
    • John Calvin
    • Albert Schweitzer
    • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    • Oswald Chambers
    • Thomas Aquinas
    • John Wesley
    • Ernest Holmes
    • Dieter F. Uchtdorf
    • Francis Schaeffer
    • Reinhold Niebuhr
    • Paul Tillich
    • John Owen
    • Mary Baker Eddy
    • Karl Barth
    • Walter Brueggemann
    • Roger Williams
    • John Wycliffe
    • Johann Kaspar Lavater
    • E. Stanley Jones
    • Origen
    • Tryon Edwards
    • Alister E. McGrath
    • Clement of Alexandria
    • Samuel Rutherford
    • Karl Rahner
    • Charles Hodge
    • Theodore Parker
    • William Barclay
    • Huston Smith
    • Stanley Hauerwas
    • Mary Daly
    • Ole Hallesby
    • Hans Urs von Balthasar
    • Miroslav Volf
  • 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.

    — Al-Ghazali
    271
  • The things that we love tell us what we are.

    — Thomas Aquinas
    268
  •  image quote by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

    — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
    29
  • Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

    — Al-Ghazali
    267
  • Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

    — John Calvin
    264
  • We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

    — John Calvin
    259
  • People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

    — John Wesley
    258
  • 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.

    — Al-Ghazali
    239
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas
    237
  •  image quote by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

    We can choose to be grateful no matter what.

    — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
    25
  • 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.

    — John Wesley
    235
  • 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.

    — Ernest Holmes
    233
  • Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

    — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    231
  • 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.

    — John Wesley
    230
  • 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.

    — John Calvin
    227
  • 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.

    — John Calvin
    225
  •  image quote by William Barclay

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

    — William Barclay
    21
  • You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

    — Al-Ghazali
    218
  • The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

    — Al-Ghazali
    215
  • 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.

    — Al-Ghazali
    214
  • If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

    — Al-Ghazali
    213
  • The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

    — Albert Schweitzer
    213
  • 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.

    — John Wesley
    212
  •  image quote by Ernest Holmes

    Change your thinking, change your life.

    — Ernest Holmes
    15
  • 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.

    — John Wycliffe
    205
  • Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

    — Thomas Aquinas
    204
  • Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

    — Ernest Holmes
    204
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas
    203
  • 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.

    — John Wesley
    201
  • 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.

    — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    199
  •  image quote by Albert Schweitzer

    Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

    — Albert Schweitzer
    12
  • 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.

    — Al-Ghazali
    199
  • A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

    — Al-Ghazali
    197
  • 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.

    — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    197
  • 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.

    — Ernest Holmes
    195
  • Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

    — Al-Ghazali
    194
  • Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

    — Francis Schaeffer
    193
  •  image quote by Benjamin Jowett

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

    — Benjamin Jowett
    11
  • 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.

    — Oswald Chambers
    193
  • Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

    — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    192
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