“Moreover, our certitudes were closely bound to a given set of symbols. Change the well defined Latin term for an undefined Greek… — Bryan Houghton Copy Share Image
It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology; the… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
“For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“I might be tempted to make to Christendom a proposal different from that of the Bible society. Let us collect all the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“To be a Christian is to be a theologian—a student of God and his will. The church is where believers should be… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The apostle Paul often appears in Christian thought as the one chiefly responsible for the de-Judaization of the gospel and even for… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“Faith is first of all not attachment to a body of doctrines but a process of responding in obedience and trust to… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of creation of the kind that the Abrahamic faiths profess is such that it encourages the expectation that there will… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The so-called Church Fathers are not some theologians as we know them nowadays. They were close to the teaching of the Apostles… — Notker Wolf Copy Share Image
“There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“the complete fulfilment of the meaning of Christ’s presence on earth. He planted the seeds and it is up to us to… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
“One could say that Hopkins practiced transubstantiation in every poem. By mysterious talent, he changed plain element into reality sublime. He encountered… — Margaret R. Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One… — Georg Hermes Copy Share Image
“If theology means knowledge of God, every woman, serious about her faith, young or old, must be a theologian, must move beyond… — Rosalie De Rosset Copy Share Image
It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I have considered the impudent accusations of Mr Dawkins with exasperation at his lack of serious scholarship. He has apparently not read… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water… — Rumi Copy Share Image
One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Theres a verse thats meant a lot to me ever since I was in my early 20s. 2 Timothy 2:8, Paul told… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
