A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet. — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it. ... — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him. — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible. — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced. — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief. — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share
