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> [“Teaching and learning \_religious plurality often ends up privileging religious \_texts\_ over \_practice\_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/teaching-and-learning-religious-plurality-often-ends-up-privileging/)

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

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> [Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/religion-in-the-west-has-a-very-wrong-connotation-it-has-almost/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism seeks a \_we\_ that does not rely on the exclusion of \_others\_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-seeks-a-we-that-does-not-rely-on-the-exclusion-of/)

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

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> [Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/often-when-i-want-to-read-something-that-is-satisfying-to-me-as/)

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

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> [After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/after-the-birth-of-printing-books-became-widespread-hence-everyone/)

[Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/)

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> [“No single theologian writing in Greek or Syriac in the patristic period exercised an influence in the Christian East comparable to that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/no-single-theologian-writing-in-greek-or-syriac-in-the-patristic/)

[David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/)

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> [“The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denys-turner/the-main-danger-is-that-of-supposing-that-the-thing-to-do-is-get-a/)

Denys Turner

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> [“Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-holloway/christian-theological-history-is-filled-with-stories-of-groups-who/)

[Richard Holloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-holloway/)

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> [Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/krista-tippett/depression-can-kill-you-it-can-also-be-a-spiritually-enriching/)

[Krista Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/krista-tippett/)

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> [“Cosmopolitanism promotes a sense of new \_we-ness as regarding every individual human being as a citizen of the cosmos. However, the \_we-cosmic-citizens\_…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitanism-promotes-a-sense-of-new-we-ness-as-regarding-every/)

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

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> [“The core tenet of worldly religion and the pure heart of the Lord Jesus are different in that one is centered around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/the-core-tenet-of-worldly-religion-and-the-pure-heart-of-the-lord/)

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

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> [I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raymond/i-guess-i-will-say-going-back-to-the-judaism-questions-there-are/)

[Jonathan Raymond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raymond/)

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> [When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-j-tipler/when-i-began-my-career-as-a-cosmologist-some-twenty-years-ago-i-was-a/)

[Frank J. Tipler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-j-tipler/)

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> [“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/a-utopian-system-when-established-by-men-is-likely-to-be-synonymous/)

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

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> [Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/elohim-was-in-logical-terminology-the-genus-of-which-ghosts-chemosh/)

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

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> [“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/and-i-feel-that-i-am-a-man-and-i-feel-that-a-man-is-a-very-important/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-dickson-white/aristotle-especially-both-by-speculation-and-observation-reached/)

[Andrew Dickson White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-dickson-white/)

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> [I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-cady-stanton/i-can-say-that-the-happiest-period-of-my-life-has-been-since-i/)

[Elizabeth Cady Stanton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-cady-stanton/)

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> [I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-weatherhead/i-believe-passionately-that-christianity-is-a-way-of-life-not-a/)

[Leslie Weatherhead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-weatherhead/)

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> [“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/we-may-be-sure-that-the-characteristic-blindness-of-the-twentieth-2/)

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

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> [I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/i-cannot-imagine-a-god-who-rewards-and-punishes-the-objects-of-his/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/one-great-idea-of-the-biblical-revelation-is-that-god-is-manifest-in/)

[Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rohr/)

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> [“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelton-jones/my-definition-of-theology-my-proverb-of-theology-is-a-doctrine-study/)

[John Shelton Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelton-jones/)

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> [There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucretia-mott/there-is-a-broad-distinction-between-religion-and-theology-the-one-is/)

[Lucretia Mott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucretia-mott/)

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> [“Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/mostly-things-are-not-that-way-that-simple-and-pure-with-so-much/)

[Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/)

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> [“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-s-gregory/the-percentage-of-leading-scientists-who-profess-not-to-believe-in-a/)

[Brad S. Gregory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-s-gregory/)

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> [For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-rahner/for-it-is-the-bitter-grief-of-theology-and-its-blessed-task-too/)

[Karl Rahner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-rahner/)

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> [“Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-d-flowers/mis-information-is-rampant-in-this-great-age-of-mass-information/)

[David D. Flowers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-d-flowers/)

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> [“Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/spontaneously-without-any-theological-training-i-a-child-grasped-the/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/every-man-has-forgotten-who-he-is-one-may-understand-the-cosmos-but-2/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [“Yes, I run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, I pray and I meditate as well. I just believe in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nynke-visser/yes-i-run-with-the-hare-and-hunt-with-the-hounds-i-pray-and-i/)

[Nynke Visser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nynke-visser/)

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> [“I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-goudge/i-had-not-known-before-that-love-is-obedience-you-want-to-love-and/)

[Elizabeth Goudge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-goudge/)

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> [ What is the right time \[to discuss theology\]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-of-nazianzus/what-is-the-right-time-to-discuss-theology-whenever-we-are-free-from/)

[Gregory of Nazianzus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-of-nazianzus/)

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> [The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-huxley/the-scientific-doctrine-of-progress-is-destined-to-replace-not-only/)

[Julian Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-huxley/)

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> [Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-schaff/calvinism-emphasizes-divine-sovereignty-and-free-grace-arminianism-2/)

[Philip Schaff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-schaff/)

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> [If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/if-you-expound-the-teaching-of-the-logos-from-the-standpoint-of-the/)

[Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/)

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> [Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-of-nazianzus/who-should-listen-to-discussions-of-theology-those-for-whom-it-is-a/)

[Gregory of Nazianzus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-of-nazianzus/)

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> [ Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the \[Patristic\] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-edward-hartpole-lecky/nothing-indeed-could-be-more-unlike-the-tone-of-the-patristic-fathers/)

[William Edward Hartpole Lecky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-edward-hartpole-lecky/)

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> [ “\[On the Human Soul\] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-goedken/on-the-human-soul-while-the-bible-offers-a-clear-distinction-that-the/)

[Brian Goedken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-goedken/)

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> [Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khaled-abou-el-fadl/think-about-that-at-a-time-when-it-was-inconceivable-to-have-a-woman/)

[Khaled Abou El Fadl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khaled-abou-el-fadl/)

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                        "text": "Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where the very word 'religion' reminds one of dead churches and dead priests. It reminds one of serious looking people, long faces. It has lost the capacity to dance, to sing, to celebrate. And when a religion has lost the capacity to dance, to celebrate, to sing, to love, just to be, then it is no more religion - it is a corpse, it is theology. Theology is dead religion.",
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                        "text": "Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or something like that - popularizations, inevitably, of scientific cosmologies - because their description of the scale of things and the intrinsic, astonishing character of reality coincides very beautifully with the most ambitious theology. It is thinking at that scale, and it is thinking that is invested with meaning in a humanly evocative form. That's theology.",
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                        "text": "“Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the damnation of others; theories that demonstrate that their particular group has been exclusively endowed with divine truth, so that they possess a unique mission to the world and have a unique authority within it.”",
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                        "text": "Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.",
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                        "text": "“Cosmopolitanism promotes a sense of new _we-ness as regarding every individual human being as a citizen of the cosmos. However, the _we-cosmic-citizens_ are not to promote the _we-ness-in-sameness_, but rather the we-ness-in-alterity_.Unlike the solidarity-in-sameness, cosmopolitan _solidarity-in-alterity_ celebrates the singularity and difference of each individual human being while not denying the historical necessity of the strategic construction of _we_ to challenge the very sociopolitically imposed category”",
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                        "text": "“The core tenet of worldly religion and the pure heart of the Lord Jesus are different in that one is centered around being a good person while the other flows for obedience. While these two roads are bound to intersect at some points, they were never promised to always run parallel (namely when considered through the traditions of men, or those who despise Jesus, or those who do not know and love Jesus).”",
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                        "text": "I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as Jewish in my own feelings about mysticism and theology.Franz Kafka is someone I very much revere. If I believed in holy texts I'd go to him as a touchstone. Not that I read Kafka all the time at this point. In a way, this is what I most want to talk about and it's the hardest to talk about.",
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                        "text": "When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.",
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                        "text": "“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at the same time. Christ, on the other hand, transforms, instead of controls, by instilling his certain inner peace. This is the place where one realizes that only his holiness is and feels like true freedom, rather than like imprisonment, and, too, why Hell, I imagine, a magnified version of man's never-ending conflict between freedom and peace, would be the flesh's ultimate utopia - yet its ultimate regret.”",
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                        "text": "Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.",
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                        "text": "“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'thou mayest'.”",
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                        "text": "Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of \"a perfecting principle\" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained.",
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                        "text": "I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.",
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                        "text": "I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.",
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                        "text": "“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, \"But how could they have thought that?\" - lies where we have never suspected it... None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.”",
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                        "text": "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.",
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                        "text": "“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.”",
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                        "text": "“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist, researcher and conservative of the Word of God with sensible and measured pursuit of infinite growth, a marriage of the spiritual knowledge (Gnosis), and unutterable love for the faith in constant pursuits and mission for truths with devoutness to prowess faith and love from faith’s vocation and noetic that’s flamed within that gives us the calling (vocation) of theologian. For theology pursues and endless journey of the Lord’s knowledge while maintaining the faith and is the strength hold of creed that manifest purpose, ontology and guardianship of the soul and wisdom, in a relation, a sound mind for divinity. . .”",
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                        "text": "There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.",
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                        "text": "“Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life sings itself. But that kind of attention is the prize. To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass--seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissistic way that it presents a colo-rectal theology, offering hope to no one.”",
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                        "text": "“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on what they base their profession. How much do they know about metaphysics, Christian theology, and intellectual history in relationship to their particular areas of scientific expertise? The intellectual relationship between religion and science is a two-way street. Just as one ought not to place much stock in geological views of a religious believer who has never studied geology, so one ought not to give much credence to the religious views of a scientist who has never studied intellectual history, the philosophy of religion, and theology. The highly specialized character of contemporary academic life makes it perfectly possible to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry or physics, for example, while knowing nothing about the theology of creation, metaphysical univocity, and why they matter for questions pertaining to the reality of God and the character of God's relationship to the natural world.”",
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                        "text": "For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.",
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                        "text": "“Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history of the world, we’re actually getting dumber it seems. The amount of (mis)information at everyone's fingertips has lured us into a false sense of knowing. Whether it be information about science, politics, or theology, our society is suffering from an inability to research, process, filter, and apply. At the same time we seem entirely oblivious to the zeitgeist (spirit of the age) that is nihilistic and libertine, making everything relative and subjective. And Satan himself rushes to blur our vision, stirring up the dust of confusion. The church must respond by teaching the critical faculties of logic and spiritual discernment, embedded in a cohesive framework of fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding). We must obtain a reasonable faith that is consistent with historic Christianity and relevant for our post-modern age. Otherwise, those rejecting the blatant errors of religious fundamentalism will be susceptible to every wind of false doctrine and repackaged heresy imaginable. They will leave the orthodox faith and accept something that vaguely resembles Christianity, but in reality is a vile concoction of demonic lies.”",
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