"The state is concerned with the promotion of……" — Alister E. McGrath
"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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26 Quotes by Alister E. McGrath
Alister E. McGrath has 26 quotes on this site.
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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…
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To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw…
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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…
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The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology…
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Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God…
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The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have…
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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
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Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the…
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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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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest…
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We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.
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The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with…
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or…
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