Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
Pride does not listen. It knows.
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.
Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.
Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.
The greatest leaders don't rule. They inspire