Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is… — Martyn Copy Share Image
“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor… — Nicolas Cotugno Copy Share Image
“Love is not first a feeling. Though the feelings come later and grow thick in the basic loam of love, they don't… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“In other words, I have tried to learn in my writing a monastic lesson I could probably not have learned otherwise: to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
“If you try to talk about a truth that’s merely moral, people always think it’s merely metaphorical. A real live man with… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Public theology is first and foremost a reaction against the tendency to privatize the faith, restricting it to the question of an… — Kevin J. Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being an intellectual or in being traditional, conventional. I'm not interested in having great wisdom. I'm not interested… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“The real desire [of feminism] is to break away from rationalism, androcentrisim and all forms of philosophy and practices that discriminate against… — Gerald O. West Copy Share Image
“I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian... The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put one aspect… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“If you are a Christian, you are a theologian. You have no choice. Theology is simply knowing about God. In fact, since… — James Robert White Copy Share Image
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes,… — J.L. Mackie Copy Share Image
The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“When we look at the frailties of the human mind and the apparent disinterest by the multitude to do the very hard… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“And yet a dream of God--THIS God--is no ordinary dream, nor night terror... It is an apocalyptic vision. As such it makes… — Craig Keen Copy Share Image
“Whether you realize it or not, you are a theologian. You come to a book like this with a working theology, an… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Much of the theology of the Bible is what we could call “task theology.” It is theological truth brought to bear on… — Mark L. Strauss Copy Share Image
We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have… — Paul King Jewett Copy Share Image
“Diversion consoles us - in trivial ways - in the face of our miseries or perplexities; yet, paradoxically, it becomes the worst… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
“Romans 8 contains a powerful theology of suffering. There’s the groaning of those dying without hope, and in contrast, the groaning of… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“True thinking takes place within a frame of continuous historical development in which progress in understanding is being made. . . .… — T.F. Torrance Copy Share Image
“[Theology] may be defined, the doctrine or science of the truth which is according to godliness, and which God has revealed to… — James Arminius Copy Share Image
“early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettable because classic Christianity has its pre-European roots in… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image