Trueman Quotes

#1. Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

John Arlott

#2. Ranger was dressed in jeans and a black T-shirt and boots,

Janet Evanovich

#3. 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

#4. If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

Richard Dawkins

#5. We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

Rudolf Steiner

#6. They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath.

Fred Trueman

#7. Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

Carl R. Trueman

#8. As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

John Locke

#9. Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

Steve Guttenberg

#10. People only call me 'Fiery' because it rhymes with Fred, just like 'Typhoon' rhymes with Tyson

Fred Trueman

#11. Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen

Fred Trueman

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Dean Kamen

#18. I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.

Julian Lennon

#19. To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

Fred Trueman

#20. Tragically, of the first five women to reach the summit of K2, three died on the descent and two were later to die on other mountains.

Mike Trueman

#21. I want you to go back to your memories and count the times you failed and then, count the times you broke through those barriers to win again.

Kenya Wright

#22. Who would I marry? I know, my ego. We'd make the perfect couple.

Max Beesley

#23. 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

#24. There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead

Fred Trueman

#25. England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

Fred Trueman

#26. 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

#27. That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

Fred Trueman

#28. 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