Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Jonathan Edwards is without a doubt the most brilliant mind America ever produced. I'm not talking about theologian; I'm talking about mind… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The Holy Apostle John the Theologian says that the commandments of God are not difficult, but easy (I John, 5:3). But they… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears,… — Andrew of Crete Copy Share Image
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement.… — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
