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> [“It occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-j-bishop/it-occurs-to-me-that-my-thinking-has-been-faulty-we-do-not-feel-god-s/)

[K.J. Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-j-bishop/)

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> [Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/beyond-all-sciences-philosophies-theologies-and-histories-a-child-s/)

[Criss Jami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/criss-jami/)

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> [I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-read-things-like-theology-and-i-read-about-science-scientific/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [“Jesus was able to die as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29), because He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-hon/jesus-was-able-to-die-as-the-lamb-of-god-to-take-away-the-sins-of-the/)

[Henry Hon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-hon/)

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> [I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-say-that-democracy-can-never-prove-itself-beyond-cavil-until-it/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-montgomery-boice/the-world-s-theology-is-easy-to-define-it-is-the-view-that-human/)

[James Montgomery Boice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-montgomery-boice/)

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> [In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/in-theology-the-state-of-a-luckless-mortal-prenatally-damned-the/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/world-travel-and-getting-to-know-clergy-of-all-denominations-has/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [“In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/in-the-tenth-century-bc-the-priests-of-india-devised-the-brahmodya/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-haldeman-julius/the-church-has-contributed-nothing-to-civilization-it-has-progressed/)

[E. Haldeman-Julius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-haldeman-julius/)

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> [The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-smith/the-problem-is-that-regardless-of-what-our-theologies-tell-us-about/)

[Christian Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-smith/)

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> [I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/i-am-persuaded-that-without-knowledge-of-literature-pure-theology/)

[Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/)

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> [ The very power of \[textbook writers\] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-very-power-of-textbook-writers-depends-on-the-fact-that-they-are/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,’ and points to the dormant goddess in every human being’s body. While the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zeena-schreck/kundalini-means-according-to-zeena-she-who-is-hidden-and-points-to/)

[Zeena Schreck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zeena-schreck/)

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> [“The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-church-expected-the-second-coming-of-christ-immediately-and-no/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/theology-is-a-non-subject-i-m-not-saying-that-professors-of-theology/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [“How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be \_true\_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/how-can-one-maintain-a-theological-confidence-in-what-one-claims-to/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-osborne/he-that-seeks-perfection-upon-earth-leaves-nothing-new-for-the-saints/)

[Frances Osborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-osborne/)

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> [In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-drewermann/in-my-eyes-concepts-of-theology-have-only-as-much-value-as-they-are/)

[Eugen Drewermann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugen-drewermann/)

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> [“Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/science-tells-us-what-we-can-know-but-what-we-can-know-is-little-and-3/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/she-tried-to-argue-and-tell-him-that-he-had-mixed-in-his-dull-brain/)

[Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/)

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> [What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/what-i-think-i-have-in-common-with-the-school-of-deconstruction-is/)

[Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-bloom/)

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> [Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-west/brace-yourself-if-we-take-in-what-the-holy-father-is-saying-in-his/)

[Christopher West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-west/)

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> [“We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-calvin/we-should-consider-that-the-brightness-of-the-divine-countenance/)

[John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-calvin/)

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> [“Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-t-wright/put-it-this-way-if-your-idea-of-god-if-your-idea-of-the-salvation/)

[N.T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-t-wright/)

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> [“The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-beginning-of-christendom-is-strictly-at-a-point-out-of-time-a/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-caputo/orthodoxy-is-idolatry-if-it-means-holding-the-correct-opinions-about/)

[John D. Caputo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-caputo/)

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> [I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-am-interested-in-scripture-and-theology-this-is-an-interest-that-i/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/jalaluddin-rumi-is-completely-rooted-in-islamic-teachings-of-quran-he/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

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> [My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/my-conclusion-is-that-there-is-no-reason-to-believe-any-of-the-dogmas/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-currie-jr/singularity-is-seen-as-an-event-horizon-there-s-everything-that-comes/)

[Ron Currie Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-currie-jr/)

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> [“No matter what our different circumstances and vocations may be, every woman is a theologian. We all have an understanding about who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-byrd/no-matter-what-our-different-circumstances-and-vocations-may-be-every/)

[Aimee Byrd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-byrd/)

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> [Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-graham/pastoral-theology-and-care-helps-people-look-deeper-at-the-2/)

[Larry Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-graham/)

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> [“We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-gresham-machen/we-may-preach-with-all-the-fervor-of-a-reformer-and-yet-succeed-only/)

[J. Gresham Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-gresham-machen/)

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> [Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-urs-von-balthasar/wonder-the-enthusiastic-ardor-for-the-sublimity-of-being-for-its/)

[Hans Urs von Balthasar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-urs-von-balthasar/)

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> [“we find the university dominated by theology of another kind – a godless theology, to be sure, but one no less insistent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-scruton/we-find-the-university-dominated-by-theology-of-another-kind-a/)

[Roger Scruton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-scruton/)

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> [Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shane-claiborne/philadelphia-caught-my-attention-in-1995-when-a-group-of-homeless/)

[Shane Claiborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shane-claiborne/)

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> [“One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/one-must-face-the-fact-that-all-the-talk-about-his-love-for-men-and/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [Beliefs create behaviors, and the dysfunctional behaviors of the human race, observable everywhere every day, are the product of our non-workable beliefs.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/beliefs-create-behaviors-and-the-dysfunctional-behaviors-of-the-human/)

[Neale Donald Walsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neale-donald-walsch/)

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> [“What sort of God do we serve? Certainly not one who can be tamed or boxed or fully understood. Don't get me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-altrogge/what-sort-of-god-do-we-serve-certainly-not-one-who-can-be-tamed-or/)

[Stephen Altrogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-altrogge/)

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                        "text": "I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.",
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                        "text": "In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.",
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                        "text": "World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.",
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                        "text": "“In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse. The object was to find a verbal formula to define the Brahman, the ultimate and inexpressible reality beyond human understanding. The idea was to push language as far as it would go, until participants became aware of the ineffable. The challenger, drawing on his immense erudition, began the process by asking an enigmatic question and his opponents had to reply in a way that was apt but equally inscrutable. The winner was the contestant who reduced the others to silence. In that moment of silence, the Brahman was present - not in the ingenious verbal declarations but in the stunning realisation of the impotence of speech. Nearly all religious traditions have devised their own versions of this exercise. It was not a frustrating experience; the finale can, perhaps, be compared to the moment at the end of the symphony, when there is a full and pregnant beat of silence in the concert hall before the applause begins. The aim of good theology is to help the audience to live for a while in that silence.”",
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                        "text": "The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.",
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                        "text": "The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.",
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                        "text": "I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.",
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                        "text": "The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.",
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                        "text": "“Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,’ and points to the dormant goddess in every human being’s body. While the kundalini force is found in muladharachakra, she hypnotizes humans, like maya herself, and renders them slaves to the illusory. Kundalini can only awaken people if she travels up along the spine.' --About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004”",
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                        "text": "“The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it was certainly expected also in another sense. The converts in all the cities of Asia and (soon) of Europe where the small groups were founded had known, in their conversion, one way or another, a first coming of their Redeemer. And then? And then! That was the consequent task and trouble — the then. He had come, and they adored and believed, they communicated and practiced, and waited for his further exhibition of himself. The then lasted, and there seemed to be no farther equivalent Now. Time became the individual and catholic problem. The Church had to become as catholic — as universal and as durable — as time.”",
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                        "text": "Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.",
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                        "text": "I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so that makes me a little bit prone to use that kind of character, perhaps, just at the moment. Then there is also the fact that, having been a church member for many years, I am very aware of how much pastors enrich people's experience, people for whom they are significant. I know that it's a kind of custom of American literature and culture to slang them. I don't think there is any reason why that needs to be persisted in.",
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                        "text": "Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.",
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