Alister E. McGrath Quotes

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

TO BE asked to minister without an informing vision of God (which is what theology is really all about), however, is like being told to make bricks without straw. What keeps people going in ministry, and what, in my experience, congregations are longing for, is an exciting and empowering vision of God, articulated in a theology that is integrated with worship, prayer, and social action.

To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.

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

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.

Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.

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.