Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace. — Donald Barnhouse Copy Share Image
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others. — Thomas More 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
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the… — Augustus Hopkins Strong Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
