Quotes from Alister E. McGrath

The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

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

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

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.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

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.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

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