“The unbiblical idea of "spirituality" is that the truly "spiritual" man is the person who is sort of "non-physical," who doesn't get… — David Chilton Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed:… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“We believe that the creation of a woman was the crowning and final and most glorified moment of human creation. That we… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“It is a bad indication when, in any period, men will so exalt their confessions that they force the Scriptures to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ask any of us: What is your concept of God, your understanding of sin or salvation, your account of the nature and… — Howard W. Stone Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement.… — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
“Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism promotes a sense of new _we-ness as regarding every individual human being as a citizen of the cosmos. However, the _we-cosmic-citizens_… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“The core tenet of worldly religion and the pure heart of the Lord Jesus are different in that one is centered around… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“According to Benedict's scheme, the community reads through... the entire book of Psalms every week. The monks are therefore exposed... to all… — Richard H. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history… — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
“Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“Yes, I run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, I pray and I meditate as well. I just believe in… — Nynke Visser Copy Share Image
“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
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![“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the idea of eternal life in a general context, it may come as a surprise that the Bible does not specifically indicate that the human soul is immortal. The postulation that we have…” quote by Brian Goedken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/05d/brian-goedken-38890_bible_on-the-human-soul-while-the-bible-offers_109608.jpg)
![“What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually 'to be…” quote by Gregory of Nazianzus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ec5/gregory-of-nazianzus-12417_christian_what-is-the-right-time-to-discuss-theolo_3158715.jpg)
