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
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' — Timothy Keller 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
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
Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians. — John Burroughs 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
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of… — Wolfgang Koeppen Copy Share Image
Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer… — Rubem Alves Copy Share Image
No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research… — Abhinavagupta Copy Share Image
Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A theologian, I found, is much like an archeologist. Both develop expertise in digging. An archeologist sifts through sediment to find objects… — Meggan Watterson Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a… — Brennan Manning 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
Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in… — Gregory of Nazianzus 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
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
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
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
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace. — Donald Barnhouse Copy Share Image
What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology. — Carl E. Olson Copy Share Image
Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
