“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Many of the seminal social issues of our time - poverty, lack of education, human trafficking, war and torture, domestic abuse -… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will… — Isser Harel Copy Share Image
“For Christians . . . an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to… — Adolph Saphir Copy Share Image
There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes… — Marilla Ricker Copy Share Image
Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a… — Mary E. Hunt Copy Share Image
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as… — Roberta Bondi Copy Share Image
“We tend to believe that God's commands are given to us merely for our own sake. But this is not true. As… — Gerald Hiestand Copy Share Image
“Finally, we must understand that theology is never an end in itself, but a means to an end, the end that we… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was… — Mary Hesse Copy Share Image
In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.” — Alan Aldridge Copy Share Image
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
I think Pope Francis is a guy who comes from a certain place in the world, and that shapes how he processes… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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