Quotes by Alister E. McGrath

Alister E. McGrath

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.

Doe

Lying

Mean

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

Important

Lying

Things In Life

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

Atheism

Atheist

Oxford

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.

Christianity

Facts

Tasks

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.

Life Is

Longing

Work Out

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’.

Country

Evidence

Reason

For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.

Luther

Promise

Trustworthiness

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

Challenges

People

Triumph

Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.

Rooted

Trustworthiness

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.

Focus

Imagination

Order

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Believe

Calvinism

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Christianity

Climate

Commitment

Country

Desire

Doe

Doors

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Eye

Facts

Focus

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Integrity

Intolerance

Introduction

Life Is

Light

Limits

Longing

Luther

Lying

May

Mean

Offering

Order

Oxford

Paradox

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Poet

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Reading

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Quotes by Alister E. McGrath

Alister E. McGrath

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.

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

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

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.

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.

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’.

For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.

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

Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.

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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