Pastoral Theology Quotes

“Christianity is Christ. It is religion, which means an active quest for Christ, it is Prayer of seeking encounter and living relation with Christ.”
― Martin Thornton, Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation

“Theology cannot be divorced from prayer, meditation is the source, not only of devotion but of knowledge”
― Martin Thornton, Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation

“God is love and God incarnate attracts through love. Here a warm humanism bursts forth on all who come within range of a radiant personality. This is the Incarnate beauty of God’s love to all men.”
― Martin Thornton, Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation

“The whole life of Christ was one of unbroken adoration, but because it was spent in the world of humankind it was an adoration which burst forth into every aspect of life and carried the whole world with it.”
― Martin Thornton, Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation

“There is nothing so contagious as holiness, nothing more pervasive than Prayer. This is precisely what the traditional Church means by evangelism and what distinguishes it from recruitment.”
― Martin Thornton, Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation