“The 144,000 have the patience of the saints; they keep the commandments of God, and they also have the faith of Jesus.… — M.L. Andreasen Copy Share Image
“If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any child can ask before… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
There's two kinds of thinking. There is conjunctive thinking and there's disjunctive thinking. Disjunctive thinking says it has to be either/or. Now… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The difficulty in today's world is our technology and science has outrun our theological advances. The reason for that is in technology… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
“Centuries of dire prophecy have taught us all to be, well, unconvinced. And there have been decades, entire scores of years when,… — Scott Cairns Copy Share Image
“...only in the late 1100s and 1200s did scholars in Sicily and Spain translate Aristotle's greatest philosophical and scientific texts. These translations… — William C Placher Copy Share Image
The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The… — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from… — Robert H. Schuller 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
When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“To challenge the verity of one’s own beliefs is to be courageous. To separate the truth from falsity is to be wise.… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
An Animated Cartoon Theology: 1. People are animals. 2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain. 3. Life is antagonistic… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“natural theology. The discipline that attempts to gain knowledge of God apart from any special revelation from God. Natural theologians have typically… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
“Whether we admit it or not, as people of faith, we sift our theology through Scripture, Church history and tradition, our reason,… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“We were fortunate his brief psychic vision distracted him from what his fingertips could have told him about my face. Of course… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The quest for knowledge is the essence of science. The science of biology is a quest to gain a knowledge of living… — R.C. Sproul 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
The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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