Top 16 Carl Trueman Quotes

#1. If God's words determine reality, then of all the things a pastor does, speaking the words of God to the congregation is the most important.

Carl R. Trueman

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#2. Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

Carl R. Trueman

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#3. The collapse in evangelical doctrinal consensus is intimately related to the collapse in the understanding of, and role assigned to, Scripture as God's Word spoken within the church. p. 98

Carl R. Trueman

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#4. Family faces are magic mirrors...we see the past, present, and future.

Gail Lumet Buckley

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#5. But the ways we abuse a thing do not negate the value of that thing.

Matt Chandler

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#6. We may live in an age when everything has to be "radical" and "revolutionary." For Luther the most radical thing one could do was to learn the basics of the faith with the simple trust of a little child.

Carl R. Trueman

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#7. The more happiness research I read, the more it starts to look as though we might all get a better happiness return from sitting in the pub with our friends, bitching about meditation, rather than by actually practicing it. Quite

Ruth Whippman

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#8. The task of the preacher, therefore, is to take the Bible and to do two things in every sermon: destroy self-righteousness and point hearers toward the alien, external righteousness of Christ.

Carl R. Trueman

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#9. You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.

Leif Enger

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#10. The women are the movers and shakers in the community ... they initiate things ... they keep things going.

Pat O'Shane

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#11. I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal?

Carl R. Trueman

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#12. Luther's doctrine of justification depends upon two things: the constant preaching of the wrath of God in the face of sin; and the realization that every Christian is at once righteous and a sinner, thus needing the hammer of the law to terrify and break the sinful conscience.

Carl R. Trueman

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#13. We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.

Carl R. Trueman

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#14. Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

Carl R. Trueman

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#15. Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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#16. Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.

Carl R. Trueman

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