The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory,… — John Gresham Machen 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
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
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
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
Many young Danish theologians went to Wittenberg starting in 1517, listened to Luther's theses and, in 1536, brought the Reformation to our… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very… — Wolfhart Pannenberg Copy Share Image
There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case,… — Susan Powter Copy Share Image
My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief. — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live… — Gordon Fee Copy Share Image
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole… — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“Influential theologian J. Gresham Machen perhaps said it best: False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the Gospel. We… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image