He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
“Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Although I know that there is ultimately greater glory in suffering than in joy, it is joy that sustains us. It is… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will… — John Hagee 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
“Luther’s theology of the cross begins with a realistic view of mankind as fallen and dead in sin. Good works are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“Unless the church is actively living out the reality of love, there is little reason to debate theology. And unless the church… — Thomas McKenzie Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
“Jesus was able to die as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29), because He… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really… — James Montgomery Boice Copy Share Image
In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“we find the university dominated by theology of another kind – a godless theology, to be sure, but one no less insistent… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Beliefs create behaviors, and the dysfunctional behaviors of the human race, observable everywhere every day, are the product of our non-workable beliefs.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“What sort of God do we serve? Certainly not one who can be tamed or boxed or fully understood. Don't get me… — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share Image
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“No matter what our different circumstances and vocations may be, every woman is a theologian. We all have an understanding about who… — Aimee Byrd Copy Share Image
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
“We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
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