“God helps those who help themselves' is common sense, 'God helps those who cannot help themselves' is sound theology, and 'God helps… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it;… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I do have a core theology though. It’s quite simple: God is love and He is always good. It’s my position on… — Jason Clark Copy Share Image
The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
“If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“I am, of course, aware that for over two hundred years scholars have laboured to keep history and theology, or history and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual… — William James Copy Share Image
“God only has one Son whom He gave for all—so He and He alone must be the object of worship and the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“Even though God could create all kinds of things, he could hardly create himself before he had a "self" to create with.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
“It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
I don't think I've been to any country where everybody was supportive - there's always churches or groups who don't like my… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
One of the things I try to do is take seriously some of the forms of American religion that people consider to… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I won't pretend that I've arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“Being a theologian is not a matter of skillfully using methods but of being imbued with the theological spirit. . . liberation… — Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Our [theological] study informs our prayers, and our prayers enliven our study. We cannot choose between prayer and study; faithful theology requires… — Kelly Kapic Copy Share Image
Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's… — Thomas E. Reynolds Copy Share Image
In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The conflicts between science and religion still remain in this day and age, because though most people understand what science means, they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image