Theological Quotes · Page 11

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot…

— Mark Twain

It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not…

— Robert M. Price

At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer…

— Alfred Rosenberg

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

— Frank Moore Cross

In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about…

— Bart D. Ehrman

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

— Cole Younger

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central…

— J. G. Holland

You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I…

— Nancy Farmer

Theological error is the most pernicious of errors; it strikes at man's center and separates him from his Creator and Redeemer. God…

— Max Anders

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the…

— Luther Burbank

No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.

— Irving Greenberg

You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with…

— Brian D. McLaren

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

— George Sarton

Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the…

— Ben Aaronovitch

At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon.…

— Chuck Todd

Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can…

— Laurence Sterne

We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity -…

— Bill McKibben

“His hands had been reddened, as all men's hands have been, in the slaying before the foundation of the world; now, if…

— C.S. Lewis

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind…

— George Pattison

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ("I feel full of worship" or "The atmosphere is so worshipful"). Actually,…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They…

— Eric Metaxas

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

— Asa Gray

[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at…

— Hershel Shanks