Alister E. McGrath Quotes

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• Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.

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  Country, Reason, Evidence

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• Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

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  Grace, May, Able

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• The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

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  Christian, Appreciate, Reminders

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• Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Argument

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• A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

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  Lying, Mean, Doe

  Alister E. McGrath (2014). “The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion”, p.97, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

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  Violence, Paradox, Intolerance

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• Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

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  Desire, Pleasure, Satisfied

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• Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

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  Christian, Suffering, Doe

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• The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.

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  Order, Focus, Heaven

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• We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

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  Decision, Needs, Stories

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• The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.

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  Meaning Of Life, Cost, Found

  Alister E. McGrath (1999). “The Unknown God: Searching for Spiritual Fulfilment”, p.50, Lion Books

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• Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ. Just as the figure of David lay hidden within the marble, discernible only to the eye of its creator, so the image of God (however tarnished by sin) lies within us, see and known by God Himself. Yet God loves us while we are still sinners. He doesn't have to wait until we stop sinning. Acceptance of His love is a major step along the road that leads to our liberation from the tyranny of sin.

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  Lying, Eye, Acceptance

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• Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.

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  Trustworthiness, Rooted

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• Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.

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  Tasks, Facts, Christianity

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• Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

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  Inspirational Life, World, Clue

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• All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

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  Lying, Things In Life, Important

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• Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

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  Climate, Doe, May

  Alister E. McGrath (2013). “The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis”, p.134, John Wiley & Sons

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• We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

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  Heaven, Earth, Homeland

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• Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.

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  People, Challenges, Triumph

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• The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

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  Motivation, Law, Evil

  Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.217, John Wiley & Sons

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• The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

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  Existence, Prove It, Theologian

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• 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.

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  Work Out, Life Is, Longing

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• Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

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  Reality, Answers, Limits

  Alister E. McGrath (2014). “The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion”, p.97, Westminster John Knox Press

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• If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.

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  Order, Imagination, Focus

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• 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.

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  Light, Heaven, Mind

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