Blind Quote by Kevin Vanhoozer Download Open image “Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.” — Kevin Vanhoozer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blind Desire Desire for god Doctrine Empty
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.” — Gerhard Ebeling Copy Share Image
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people. — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God. — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life. — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not. — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church. — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
“If I speak in the tongues of Reformers and of professional theologians, and I have not personal faith in Christ, my theology is nothing… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!” — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
