Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Too many live with the false promise that their faith will deliver them from doubt and conveniently supply all the answers to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The picture of Kant as the 'theological Robespierre' or the "world-crusher" was first suggested by someone with whom Kant stood in a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Over the years, my books have been given a lot more credence than they should. I don't think people should take them… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Probably one of the strongest movements of the Holy Spirit is in the Roman Catholic Church, so there's not a huge theological… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility… Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as… — Paul Pruyser Copy Share Image
It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus,… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that the situation of the church in our society, perhaps the church everywhere always, is entrusted with a… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance… — Jay Kesler Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
“If we wait for correct ideas to save us—theological or otherwise—we’ll never be saved, even from ourselves.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
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