“ The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space. George Gordon Byron
“ Blake's song isn't really a song for England alone," said Dym. "It's a song for every land. We're all building the unseen Jerusalem together. But the powers of darkness don't want to see a time when t… Constance Savery
“ The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has… Theodor W. Adorno
“ Eschatology is the dustbin into which we sweep everything we don't want. To believe. We believe that the Lord will manifest Himself to men, but He'll do it tomorrow, or the day after, or the next mill… A.W. Tozer
“ Like the Church the individual Christian will not be able to escape the deep ambiguities of this-wordly existence whether in its cultural, social, political or other aspects, and he too will inevitabl… Thomas F. Torrance
“ The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it was certainly expected also in another sense. The converts in all the cities… Charles Williams
“ Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things, but the annihilation of everything. Some great contraction, or collapse. Or, perhaps, so… Mort W. Lumsden
“ Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture. Eli Of Kittim
“ Now if BECOMING history is the particularity of the Son in the economy, what is the contribution of the Spirit? Well, precisely the opposite: it is to liberate the Son and the economy from the bondage… John D. Zizioulas
“ There does not exist any more a holy mountain or a holy city or holy land which can be marked on a map. The reason is not that God’s holiness in space has suddenly become unworthy of Him or has change… Karl Barth
“ That which was published in the Law, the prophets, and psalms before "God was manifested in flesh"looks forward to Jesus the Christ; what was published after Christ's ascension looks back to Him as "t… Tim Liwanag
“ When God “saves” people in this life, by working through His Spirit to bring them to faith, and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope and love, such people are design… N.T. Wright
“ All I do know is that the world has a Chief who was victorious when the powers of darkness struck at him with everything they had. He has the plans today. The darkness won't last forever. There's a sp… Constance Savery
“ What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the e… N.T. Wright
“ ...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are… N.T. Wright