Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will . . . cure many current theological concerns. — Jay Kesler Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest theological challenges of our time is to move our worship beyond self-absorption.” — Kelly M. Kapic Copy Share Image
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that… — Jean-Luc Marion Copy Share Image
That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Annie Dillard famously writes, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”6 I came across Dillard’s words… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“In this book, the history of American religion is the history of human actions and human organizations, not the history of ideas… — Roger Finke Copy Share Image
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological,… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity -… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries… — David Novak Copy Share Image
“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science:… — Uta Ranke-Heinemann Copy Share Image
See that's where it falls apart for me!" Anne cried. "What sticks in my throat is that God gets the credit but… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses,… — M. M. Mangasarian Copy Share Image
Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I personally experienced what can happen when the gospel of Jesus Christ gets reduced to a series of theological ideas coupled with… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
![“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?)…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/74c/oliver-d-crisp-12863_atonement_sometimes-we-can-lose-the-wood-for-the-t_1996596.jpg)
