God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety. — Thomas Oden Copy Share Image
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted… — Peter Leithart 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
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
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
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
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
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Christians believe that God created man, and humanists believe that man invented God. But whichever way you look at it, we're brothers… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. There really is only one, and that is this:… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image