“If you don’t know the difference between theology and religious studies, then you’re a theologian.” — Brian Bocking Copy Share Image
“The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history.” — Michael Wood Copy Share Image
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message. — Edward Schillebeeckx Copy Share Image
The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The so-called sophisticated theologians, especially ones who are very nice, like Rowan Williams and Jonathan Sacks, you sometimes don't quite know where… — Richard Dawkins 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
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
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
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
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
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
For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
God cannot suffer - at least not as we do. It has some roots in Greek philosophy: if God is a perfect… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have… — Helmut Thielicke 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
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip. — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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