The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength?… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, as William Blake said. Yet only if it is the excess of… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
“The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there.… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“It is natural to speak of hymns as "poems," indiscriminately, for they have the same structure. But a hymn is not necessarily… — Hezekiah Butterworth Copy Share Image
“But someone may ask, is there any real reason why these sages, whether Buddhist or Stoic, should not recapture the soul of… — Gabriel Marcel 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
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In the name of compassion, Obama advocates seemingly endless extensions of unemployment benefits because his economic theology holds that by paying people… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“. . . anyone who wants to elaborate relevant liberation theology must be prepared to go into the 'examination hall' of the… — Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff Copy Share Image
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Religion is not delusion, for most part it's therapeutic, but the notion that you're doomed if you don't pick a particular religion,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to… — William James Copy Share Image
In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason… — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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