Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

- D. Elton Trueblood

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

- D. Elton Trueblood

The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sover…

- D. Elton Trueblood

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

- D. Elton Trueblood

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have some…

- D. Elton Trueblood

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

- D. Elton Trueblood

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

- D. Elton Trueblood

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

- D. Elton Trueblood

This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means t…

- D. Elton Trueblood