Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them. Alister E. McGrath More Quotes by Alister E. McGrath More Quotes From Alister E. McGrath Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents. Alister E. McGrath example spiritual teacher For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God. Alister E. McGrath trustworthiness luther promise Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility. Alister E. McGrath intellectual lying people