Peter Berger

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. Peter Berger

Bruno Bauer

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. Bruno Bauer The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. Bruno Bauer But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of [...]

Ferdinand Christian Baur

It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles. Ferdinand Christian Baur The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea [...]

Karl Barth

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth Faith in God’s revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. Karl Barth Jews have God’s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are [...]

Albert Barnes

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest. Albert Barnes We can always find something to [...]

William Barclay

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father’s hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. William Barclay But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where [...]

Hans Urs von Balthasar

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. Hans Urs von Balthasar To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own [...]

Eberhard Arnold

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. Eberhard Arnold Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion. Eberhard Arnold

Johann Arndt

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. Johann Arndt For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than [...]

Antoine Arnauld

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest. Antoine Arnauld

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Beware of the person of one book. Saint Thomas Aquinas Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. Saint Thomas Aquinas Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Saint Thomas Aquinas Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived [...]

John Calvin

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? John Calvin Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. John Calvin Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind [...]

Ralph Cudworth

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself. Ralph Cudworth The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all [...]