It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's. — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children. — Irving Greenberg Copy Share Image
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive. — Walter Rauschenbusch 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
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann 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
You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill 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
“We must let go of any fantasy concerning the church as a stable, predictable, well-regulated organization. If the church is truly the… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
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