“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
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
“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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“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
“How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. What do you… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to this. A theory was even… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
“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
“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
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
“One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answers. Sometimes… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“Zeena believes that the breaking of taboos creates access to blocked energy that is let loose in a forceful way. The left-hand… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew… — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
“Biblical theology attempts to embrace the message of the Bible and to arrive at an intelligible coherence of the whole despite the… — Scott J. Hafemann Copy Share Image
“Experiencing grief and pain is like falling off a cliff. Everything has been turned upside down, and we are no longer in… — Dustin Shramek Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Our modern theology, which in many ways has ceased to be personal, i.e. centered on the Christian experience of "person," nevertheless -… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that, the idea of religion has been filled by the human society with all sorts of garbage, and thus… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives. As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesmen to… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“There is a beauty in paradox when it comes to talking about things of ultimate concern. Paradox works against our tendency to… — Nanette Sawyer Copy Share Image
“His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles.… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“For the humanists, whatever authority Scripture might possess derived from the original texts in their original languages, rather than from the Vulgate,… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
