The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ. — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters. — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a radical theologian, you have to be able to say, “I have no idea what is going… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not a function of occupation or calling. A scientist may be more spiritual than a theologian; a teacher may be… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“God once spoke through the mouth of an ass. I will tell you straight what I think. I am a Christian theologian… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A theologian, I found, is much like an archeologist. Both develop expertise in digging. An archeologist sifts through sediment to find objects… — Meggan Watterson Copy Share Image
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
