I'm impressed that people out there in Pennsylvania, deer hunter country, have had it with these stupid wars, that they don't go… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be… — Catherine Keller Copy Share Image
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
“Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of… — erwin panofsky Copy Share Image
“There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead Copy Share Image
The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“The themes of Jesus' teaching are important, but of course he was more than a teacher. All the Gospels put the end… — William C Placher Copy Share Image
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“But someone may ask, is there any real reason why these sages, whether Buddhist or Stoic, should not recapture the soul of… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“Hence it's funny to read in the New York Times that liberal Catholic activists are pushing for a change in Church teaching… — John Zmirak Copy Share Image
So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“It is natural to speak of hymns as "poems," indiscriminately, for they have the same structure. But a hymn is not necessarily… — Hezekiah Butterworth Copy Share Image
“As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give… — Gerhard O. Forde Copy Share Image
“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“To be a Christian is to be a theologian—a student of God and his will. The church is where believers should be… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Faith is first of all not attachment to a body of doctrines but a process of responding in obedience and trust to… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of creation of the kind that the Abrahamic faiths profess is such that it encourages the expectation that there will… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The apostle Paul often appears in Christian thought as the one chiefly responsible for the de-Judaization of the gospel and even for… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“the complete fulfilment of the meaning of Christ’s presence on earth. He planted the seeds and it is up to us to… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
“There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
The so-called Church Fathers are not some theologians as we know them nowadays. They were close to the teaching of the Apostles… — Notker Wolf Copy Share Image
The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One… — Georg Hermes Copy Share Image
“If theology means knowledge of God, every woman, serious about her faith, young or old, must be a theologian, must move beyond… — Rosalie De Rosset Copy Share Image
