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> [The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-capacity-for-the-accomplishment-of-religious-virtuosos-the/)

[Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/)

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> [“According to Benedict's scheme, the community reads through... the entire book of Psalms every week. The monks are therefore exposed... to all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-h-schmidt/according-to-benedict-s-scheme-the-community-reads-through-the-entire/)

[Richard H. Schmidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-h-schmidt/)

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> [Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fannie-barrier-williams/only-men-of-moral-and-mental-force-of-a-patriotic-regard-for-the/)

[Fannie Barrier Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fannie-barrier-williams/)

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> [I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-think-that-the-bible-as-literature-should-be-a-compulsory-part-of/)

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

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> [“For when man is faced with a curse he answers, "I'll take care of my problems." And he puts everything to work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-ellul/for-when-man-is-faced-with-a-curse-he-answers-i-ll-take-care-of-my/)

[Jacques Ellul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-ellul/)

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> [Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-frederic-amiel/christianity-if-it-is-to-triumph-over-pantheism-must-absorb-it-to-our/)

[Henri Frederic Amiel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-frederic-amiel/)

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> [“The Bible assumes that we do not know instinctively how to talk with God but rather need some help with knowing how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-e-goldingay/the-bible-assumes-that-we-do-not-know-instinctively-how-to-talk-with/)

[John E. Goldingay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-e-goldingay/)

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> [“In the scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some- times used pejoratively to refer to a vague or ill-formulated belief. I believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-polkinghorne/in-the-scientific-community-the-adjective-theological-is-some-times/)

[John Polkinghorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-polkinghorne/)

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> [I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/i-did-not-learn-my-theology-all-at-once-but-had-to-search-constantly/)

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

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> [“Theology does not thrive in the world of action and reaction, change: it grows on calm, like the scum on a stagnant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gardner/theology-does-not-thrive-in-the-world-of-action-and-reaction-change/)

[John Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gardner/)

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> [Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/oddly-enough-my-favorite-genre-is-not-fiction-i-m-attracted-by/)

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

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> [You see, my Lord Archbishop, what is "dubious" about my theology is not that it contradicts particular doctrinal teachings, things are much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-drewermann/you-see-my-lord-archbishop-what-is-dubious-about-my-theology-is-not/)

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

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> [“What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain \_faithful\_ to the Divine while living in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human-to-continue-to-live-as-human-to-remain/)

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

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> [The Resurrection of Jesus is...a symbol of hope...I don't see how you can show love...without being in solidarity with the victims of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-sobrino/the-resurrection-of-jesus-is-a-symbol-of-hope-i-don-t-see-how-you-can/)

[Jon Sobrino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-sobrino/)

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> [If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spiro-t-agnew/if-a-theology-student-in-lowa-should-get-up-at-a-pta-luncheon-in/)

[Spiro T. Agnew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spiro-t-agnew/)

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> [Many years ago I was driven to the conclusion that the two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-seamands/many-years-ago-i-was-driven-to-the-conclusion-that-the-two-major/)

[David Seamands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-seamands/)

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> [I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/i-whispered-to-dad-during-rosh-hashanah-services-do-you-believe-in/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

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> [“People were no longer concerned with understanding what a text said or what a thing was from the aspect of its fulfillment,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/people-were-no-longer-concerned-with-understanding-what-a-text-said/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-haynes-holmes/when-i-say-god-it-is-poetry-and-not-theology-nothing-that-any/)

[John Haynes Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-haynes-holmes/)

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> [To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-meslier/to-discover-the-true-principles-of-morality-men-have-no-need-of/)

[Jean Meslier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-meslier/)

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> [The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/the-religion-of-the-future-will-be-a-cosmic-religion-it-should/)

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

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> [When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-urs-von-balthasar/when-you-say-yes-to-god-unconditionally-you-have-no-idea-how-far-this/)

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

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> [“Once, long ago, Jesus had called her name, breaking through the darkness of her oppression to set her free from the seven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherri-gragg/once-long-ago-jesus-had-called-her-name-breaking-through-the-darkness/)

[Sherri Gragg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherri-gragg/)

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> [It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/it-can-be-a-good-thing-if-deeper-theology-or-philosophy-only-makes/)

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

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> [“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry. I cry for tolerance, they call it philosophy. I reject prejudice, they call it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/i-bleed-on-paper-they-think-it-s-poetry-i-cry-for-tolerance-they-call/)

[Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/)

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> [“The theology of the cross is not a cerebral thing; it profoundly affects our Christian experience and existence, making demands upon our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-r-trueman-2/the-theology-of-the-cross-is-not-a-cerebral-thing-it-profoundly/)

[Carl R. Trueman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-r-trueman-2/)

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> [Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/isn-t-it-sad-that-in-a-time-when-we-face-so-many-devastating-problems/)

[Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/)

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> [There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-schweitzer/there-is-nothing-more-negative-than-the-result-of-the-critical-study/)

[Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-schweitzer/)

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> [Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-calvin/wherefore-all-theology-when-separated-from-christ-is-not-only-vain/)

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

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> [There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-adamson/there-s-a-stronger-and-more-kind-of-controversial-element-of-plotinus/)

[Peter Adamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-adamson/)

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> [“Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustus-toplady/though-i-cannot-entirely-agree-with-you-in-supposing-that-extreme/)

[Augustus Toplady](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustus-toplady/)

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> [“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/initially-the-god-of-the-old-testament-might-seem-overwhelming-and/)

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

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> [“Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-de-la-cruz/many-beginners-also-at-times-possess-great-spiritual-avarice-they/)

[Juan de la Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-de-la-cruz/)

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> [“Didn't Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?" "The what?" "The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-lynch/didn-t-chains-tell-you-about-the-golden-theological-principle-the/)

[Scott Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-lynch/)

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> [In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-c-sproul/in-the-decade-of-the-1980s-a-massive-and-comprehensive-study-of/)

[R. C. Sproul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-c-sproul/)

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> [If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-cruz/if-we-look-at-it-more-from-a-philosophical-standpoint-these/)

[Ted Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-cruz/)

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> [So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/so-marxism-freudianism-any-one-of-these-things-i-think-is-an/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [“Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/nothing-can-be-rightly-known-if-god-be-not-known-nor-is-any-study-3/)

[Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/)

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> [“Worldliness proposes objectives which demand no radical breach with man's fallen nature; it judges the importance of things by the present and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-murray/worldliness-proposes-objectives-which-demand-no-radical-breach-with/)

[Iain Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-murray/)

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> [I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-thurman/i-say-that-creeds-dogmas-and-theologies-are-inventions-of-the-mind-it/)

[Howard Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-thurman/)

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                        "text": "“According to Benedict's scheme, the community reads through... the entire book of Psalms every week. The monks are therefore exposed... to all the despairing, doubtful, bitter, vindictive, jingoistic, nationalistic, and seemingly racist passages in the Psalter. It is not that every sentiment expressed by a psalmist is admirable, but that in praying the Psalms, we confront ourselves as we really are. The Psalms are a reality check to keep prayer from becoming sentimental, superficial, or detached from the real world.”",
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                        "text": "Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.",
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                        "text": "I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.",
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                        "text": "“For when man is faced with a curse he answers, \"I'll take care of my problems.\" And he puts everything to work to become powerful, to keep the curse from having its effects. He creates the arts and the sciences, he raises an army, he constructs chariots, he builds cities. The spirit of might is a response to the divine curse.”",
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                        "text": "Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase \"ye are gods,\" and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of \"the race of God.\" Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.",
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                        "text": "“The Bible assumes that we do not know instinctively how to talk with God but rather need some help with knowing how to do so. The Psalter is the Bible’s book of praise and prayer to provide the answer to those questions and meet that need. It is given to us so that we can “adapt and adjust our minds and feelings so that they are in accord with the sense of the psalms.”Eugene Peterson thus comments that the Psalms are where Christians have always learned to pray—till our age!”",
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                        "text": "“In the scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some- times used pejoratively to refer to a vague or ill-formulated belief. I believe this usage to be very far from the truth. It sad- dens me that some of my colleagues remain unaware of the truth-seeking intent and rational scrupulosity that character- ise theological discourse at its best.”",
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                        "text": "I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.",
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                        "text": "“Theology does not thrive in the world of action and reaction, change: it grows on calm, like the scum on a stagnant pool. And it flourishes, it prospers, on decline. Only in a world where everything is patently being lost can a priest stir men's hearts as a poet would by maintaining that nothing is in vain.”",
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                        "text": "Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.",
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                        "text": "You see, my Lord Archbishop, what is \"dubious\" about my theology is not that it contradicts particular doctrinal teachings, things are much worse or better: what I want, is no more and no less than a fundamental change in the whole way that theology is done today; but I want this out of faith, not out of faithlessness.",
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                        "text": "“What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain _faithful_ to the Divine while living in a cultural, sociogeopoltical, and religious world where power disparity between/among humans based on religious world where power disparity between/among humans based on their nationality, citizenship, gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, religion and so forth still prevails? The act of _theologizing_ for me involves responding to these questions and stimulating the practice of liberating and enlarging human possibility in our daily reality.”",
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                        "text": "The Resurrection of Jesus is...a symbol of hope...I don't see how you can show love...without being in solidarity with the victims of this world. And if you are in solidarity with the victims, I don't see how you can avoid the cross. The theology of the cross is the theology of love in our real world.",
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                        "text": "If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.",
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                        "text": "I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, \"Do you believe in God?\" \"Not really,\" he said. \"No.\" \"Then why do we come here?\" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. \"I've been wrong before,\" he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.",
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                        "text": "When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.",
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                        "text": "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.",
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                        "text": "When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand... but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this Yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom.",
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                        "text": "“Once, long ago, Jesus had called her name, breaking through the darkness of her oppression to set her free from the seven demons that bound her. now He broke through the hopelessness of her grief and despair. Mary might not have recognized His face, but she could never forget the sound of His voice, not when He called her name.(From \"I Have Seen The Lord!\")”",
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                        "text": "It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.",
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                        "text": "“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry. I cry for tolerance, they call it philosophy. I reject prejudice, they call it science. I stand undivided, they call it theology. Apparently humans cannot fathom life unless it comes giftwrapped, then they put the wrapping on the altar, and build a school around it, while disposing of the life.”",
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                        "text": "“The theology of the cross is not a cerebral thing; it profoundly affects our Christian experience and existence, making demands upon our whole lives and turning theology into something which controls not just our thoughts, but the very way in which we experience the world around and taste the blessing and fellowship of God himself.”",
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                        "text": "Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation?\" [The Communion, which] \"used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers\" now seems \"hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.",
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                        "text": "There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb.",
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                        "text": "So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of theology; I don't think much of it. In fact, in my view that's exactly the right analogy: notions like Marxism and Freudianism belong to the history of organized religion.",
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                        "text": "“Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator: single letters, and syllables uncomposed, are no better than nonsense. He who overlooketh him who is the 'Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,' and seeth not him in all who is the All of all, doth see nothing at all. All creatures, as such, are broken syllables; they signify nothing as separated from God. Were they separated actually, they would cease to be, and the separation would be annhiliation; and when we separate them in our fancies, we make nothing of them to ourselves. It is one thing to know the creatures as Aristotle, and another thing to know them as a Christian. None but a Christian can read one line of his Physics so as to understand it rightly. It is a high and excellent study, and of greater use than many apprehend; but it is the smallest part of it that Aristotle can teach us.”",
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