131 Christians Everyone Should Know Quotes

“To Athanasius this was no splitting of theological hairs. Salvation was at issue: only one who was fully human could atone for human sin; only one who was fully divine could have the power to save us. To Athanasius, the logic of New Testament doctrine of salvation assumed the dual nature of Christ. “Those who maintain 'There was a time when the Son was not' rob God of his Word, like plunderers.”
― J.I. Packer, 131 Christians Everyone Should Know

“He was exiled five times by four Roman emperors, spending 17 of the 45 years he served as bishop of Alexandria in exile. Yet in the end, his theological enemies were “exiled” from the church's teaching, and it is Athanasius's writings that shaped the future of the church.”
― J.I. Packer, 131 Christians Everyone Should Know

“Both the processes and the characters of history have a vast amount to teach us; studying them matures our judgment and frees us from blind submission to present-day prejudices. It has often been said, if we will not learn from history, we sentence ourselves to repeat its mistakes. This is supremely true of Christian history, which shows us the conflict of God's Word with the world, in and through the lives of his servants, and sets before us the possibilities of living for God that had never before entered our minds.”
― J.I. Packer, 131 Christians Everyone Should Know

“Thereafter Erasmus devoted himself to the Greek language, in which the New Testament was written. “I cannot tell you, dear Colet, how I hurry on, with all sails set, to holy literature,” he soon wrote to his new friend. “How I dislike everything that keeps me back, or retards”
― Mark Galli, 131 Christians Everyone Should Know

“Finney stated that unbelief was a “will not,” instead of a “cannot,” and could be remedied if a person willed to become a Christian. Such rigid Calvinism, he said, “had not been born again, was insufficient, and altogether an abomination to God.”
― Mark Galli, 131 Christians Everyone Should Know

“Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice…but the voice of eternity within a man it cannot drown. When by the aid of affliction all irrelevant voices are brought to silence, it can be heard, this voice within.”
― Mark Galli, 131 Christians Everyone Should Know

“he shoots higher that threatens the moon, than he that aims at a tree.”
― Mark Galli, 131 Christians Everyone Should Know

“It pleases me that you teach sacred theology to the brothers, as long as—in the words of the Rule—you 'do not extinguish the Spirit of prayer and devotion' with study of this kind.” —Francis of Assisi”
― Mark Galli, 131 Christians Everyone Should Know