Alister Mcgrath Quotes

Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will. — Alister E. McGrath

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing. — Alister E. McGrath

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world. — Alister E. McGrath

If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there. — Alister E. McGrath

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom. — Alister E. McGrath

Without the advent of printing, there would have been no Reformation, and there might well have been no Protestantism either. — Alister E. McGrath

A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped. — 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

All the important things in life lie beyond reason ... and that's just the way things are. — Alister E. McGrath

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul. — Alister E. McGrath

Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. — 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

Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience. — 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

Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them. — Alister E. McGrath

Later Protestant writers would refer to this as the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae - the "article by which the church stands or falls. — Alister E. McGrath

Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible. — Alister E. McGrath

We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven. — Alister E. McGrath

Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God. — Alister E. McGrath

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. — Alister E. McGrath

For Tolkien, a myth awakens in its readers a longing for something that lies beyond their grasp. Myths — Alister E. McGrath

Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories. — 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

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — 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

New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them. — Alister E. McGrath

They taught me longing - Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower. — Alister E. McGrath

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way. — Alister E. McGrath

Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination. — 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

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it. — Alister E. McGrath