Quotes about Liberal
Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.
— Frank Herbert
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
— John Adams
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
— Philip Yancey
The faithfulness principle (of the conservative) and the flexibility principle (of the liberal) are two sides of the same coin. They are both necessary if Christians are to follow their instructions and remain simultaneously "in" the world but not "of" it.
— Os Guinness
The Church has always had a conservative head and a liberal heart, and the world has never understood her, just as it never understood Christ.
— Peter Kreeft
Such for example are the liberal doctrines of the universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man.
— J. Gresham Machen
The assertion is often made, indeed, that Jesus kept His own Person out of His gospel, and came forward merely as the supreme prophet of God. That assertion lies at the very root of the modern liberal conception of the life of Christ. But common as it is, it is radically false.
— J. Gresham Machen
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
— Max Lucado
The heirs of that liberal theology are today keen to marginalize the Bible, declaring that it supports slavery and other wicked things, because they don't like what it says on other topics such as sexual ethics. But if you push the Bible off the table, you are merely colluding with pagan empire, denying yourself the sourcebook for your kingdom critique of oppression. The Sadducee didn't know the Bible or God's power; that's why they denied the resurrection and supported Rome.
— NT Wright
Neither the SPLC, the liberal media, nor the Democratic Party has any authority on what constitutes 'hate.' They themselves are full of lies and hatred. They have no love.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
He was liberal in his determination to understand the Biblical writers historically He was orthodox in his belief that the Bible was "dictated" by the Spirit. He was "neo-orthodox" in making Christ who came to save sinners central to the whole Bible.
— John Calvin
The modern liberal preacher reverences Jesus; he has the name of Jesus forever on his lips; he speaks of Jesus as the supreme revelation of God; he enters, or tries to enter, into the religious life of Jesus. But he does not stand in a religious relation to Jesus. Jesus for him is an example for faith, not the object of faith. The modern liberal tries to have faith in God like the faith which he supposes Jesus had in God; but he does not have faith in Jesus.
— J. Gresham Machen