Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas…scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger,… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is… — Donald M. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
We never really know what we want until after we get it. If after we get it, it makes life more miserable,… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox. — Joseph Silk Copy Share Image
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Luther exerted a strong influence on Denmark. Suddenly Danish theologians were preaching in Danish and translating the Bible into Danish. — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“I once informed a leading evangelical theologian that his newly published systematic theology is thoroughly Arminian even though he never uses the… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“The Swiss theologian John Calvin, in his commentaries on the Hebrew prophets, says that God so identifies with the poor that their… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Let me remind you that this is God's universe, and He is doing things His way. You may think you have a… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in… — David Novak Copy Share Image
PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image