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> [“To understand our faith -- to theologize in the Catholic tradition -- we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-cardinal-pell/to-understand-our-faith-to-theologize-in-the-catholic-tradition-we/)

[George Cardinal Pell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-cardinal-pell/)

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> [“There is a dreadful emptiness in the spiritual fatherhood. No power, no success, no popularity, no easy satisfaction. But that same dreadful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-j-m-nouwen/there-is-a-dreadful-emptiness-in-the-spiritual-fatherhood-no-power-no/)

[Henri J.M. Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-j-m-nouwen/)

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> [“Science and theology are both lenses through which to interact with and interpret reality, sort of like a microscope and a pair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-colin-campbell/science-and-theology-are-both-lenses-through-which-to-interact-with/)

[T. Colin Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-colin-campbell/)

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> [“I simply think that the dialogue that is intensifying between theology, philosophy, and science can first of all lead to an understanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marco-bersanelli/i-simply-think-that-the-dialogue-that-is-intensifying-between/)

[Marco Bersanelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marco-bersanelli/)

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> [At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-miller/at-the-end-of-the-day-when-i-am-lying-in-bed-and-i-know-the-chances/)

[Donald Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-miller/)

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> [Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-henry-willimon/just-when-i-get-my-church-all-sorted-out-sheep-from-the-goats-saved/)

[William Henry Willimon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-henry-willimon/)

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> [In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/in-general-in-the-matters-that-relate-to-theology-or-behavior-people/)

[Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/)

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> [ These guys \[liberals\] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-limbaugh/these-guys-liberals-will-never-tire-of-spending-our-money-and-will/)

[David Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-limbaugh/)

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> [No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-c-sproul/no-christian-can-avoid-theology-every-christian-is-a-theologian/)

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

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> [The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-clarence-thiessen/the-bible-is-to-the-theologian-what-nature-is-to-the-scientist-a-body/)

[Henry Clarence Thiessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-clarence-thiessen/)

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> [“The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken-2/the-essence-of-science-is-that-it-is-always-willing-to-abandon-a-2/)

[H.L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken-2/)

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> [“Swamp Thing, in Hell: "Demon...How...could God...allow such a place? Etrigan: Think you God built this place, wishing man ill and not lusts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/swamp-thing-in-hell-demon-how-could-god-allow-such-a-place-etrigan/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

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> [“In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-keel/in-post-christendom-the-church-is-that-community-of-people-who-look/)

[Tim Keel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-keel/)

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> [John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/john-calvin-s-theology-emphasizes-the-sanctity-of-conscience-the/)

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

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> [“The resurrection of the body - what do we really mean by this? ...Did not the mystics and sages of all times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-schmemann/the-resurrection-of-the-body-what-do-we-really-mean-by-this-did-not/)

[Alexander Schmemann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-schmemann/)

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> [“If the Gospel of Judas found in Codex Tchacos can be convincingly identified as being a Coptic translation of the original Greek…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregor-wurst/if-the-gospel-of-judas-found-in-codex-tchacos-can-be-convincingly/)

[Gregor Wurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregor-wurst/)

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> [Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-townsend-warner/theology-mr-fortune-found-is-a-more-accommodating-subject-than/)

[Sylvia Townsend Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-townsend-warner/)

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> [“The study of theology is not merely a theoretical exercise of the intellect. It is a study of the living God, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-grudem/the-study-of-theology-is-not-merely-a-theoretical-exercise-of-the/)

[Wayne Grudem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-grudem/)

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> [Every faith uses some kind of tool to understand itself better. Faith seeks understanding. The Western tradition has used philosophy to understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-george/every-faith-uses-some-kind-of-tool-to-understand-itself-better-faith/)

[Francis George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-george/)

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> [“We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/we-have-already-compared-the-benefits-of-theology-and-science-when/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stott/tolerance-is-not-a-spiritual-gift-it-is-the-distinguishing-mark-of/)

[John Stott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stott/)

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> [We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-joyner/we-are-coming-to-the-times-when-passive-christianity-and-passive/)

[Rick Joyner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-joyner/)

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> [“Those who hold to the Christian faith see law as an ultimate order of the universe. It is the invariable factor in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-j-rushdoony/those-who-hold-to-the-christian-faith-see-law-as-an-ultimate-order-of/)

[R.J. Rushdoony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-j-rushdoony/)

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> [The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-huxley/the-antagonism-between-science-and-religion-about-which-we-hear-so/)

[Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-huxley/)

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> [From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/from-it-genesis-twelve-hundred-years-ago-to-today-islamic-philosophy/)

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

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> [“Don't assume you understand Naskar (Sonnet 2972) Naskar Science is Naskar Theology is Naskar Poetry is Naskar Philosophy - and do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/don-t-assume-you-understand-naskar-sonnet-2972-naskar-science-is/)

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

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> [“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/science-is-opposed-to-theological-dogmas-because-science-is-founded/)

[Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/)

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> [Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/theology-is-not-a-private-subject-for-theologians-only-nor-is-it-a/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

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> [The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/the-idea-that-the-universe-itself-is-physically-structured-around/)

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

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> [“The individualism of the Romantic theory of interpretation attempts to abstract the individual from his historical context by presenting him with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-louth/the-individualism-of-the-romantic-theory-of-interpretation-attempts/)

[Andrew Louth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-louth/)

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> [“Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/philosophy-as-i-shall-understand-the-word-is-something-intermediate/)

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

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> [“We have often done well knowing the mind of God in our churches today. We have not done as well knowing His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mills/we-have-often-done-well-knowing-the-mind-of-god-in-our-churches-today/)

[Bill Mills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mills/)

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> [Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-campolo/beyond-these-models-of-reconciliation-a-theology-of-mysticism/)

[Tony Campolo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-campolo/)

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> [Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-polkinghorne/theology-differs-from-science-in-many-respects-because-of-its/)

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

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> [“For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observable nature of things.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-joseph-hoffmann/for-modern-cosmology-god-cannot-be-a-working-hypothesis-because-god/)

[R. Joseph Hoffmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-joseph-hoffmann/)

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> [“Theological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/theological-discourses-function-in-various-ways-as-sites-of/)

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

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> [The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-notion-that-science-does-not-concern-itself-with-first-causes/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [“Everything hinges on the Christ of the cross. The fact of the cross is the axiom of theological thought. It is impossible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kazoh-kitamori/everything-hinges-on-the-christ-of-the-cross-the-fact-of-the-cross-is/)

[Kazoh Kitamori](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kazoh-kitamori/)

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> [“Always, in Lincoln's mature theology, there is paradox. There is starting this, yet there is also tenderness; there is melancholy, yet there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elton-trueblood/always-in-lincoln-s-mature-theology-there-is-paradox-there-is/)

[Elton Trueblood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elton-trueblood/)

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> [“Sonnet of Holy Water A new day starts with a new you, And I ain't talkin' about born again nonsense. A bigot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/sonnet-of-holy-water-a-new-day-starts-with-a-new-you-and-i-ain-t/)

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

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                        "text": "In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when he said that women should always cover their hair or that women should not teach men, women should not have leadership positions in the church, women should not speak in the church, I don't' think that those writings of Paul can be extracted by themselves to stand alone. Also, Paul said that women should be subservient to their husbands but if you read a couple of verses down it says husbands should treat their wives as equals.",
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                        "text": "These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles.  For them the failure of $5 trillion to eradicate poverty simply means that we haven't spent enough money.  Ditto with education.  The solution is always more money.  No amount of empirical evidence will shake their socialist theology.",
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                        "text": "“The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the thirteenth century.”",
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                        "text": "“Swamp Thing, in Hell: \"Demon...How...could God...allow such a place? Etrigan: Think you God built this place, wishing man ill and not lusts uncontrolled or swords unsheathed? Not God, my friend. The truth's more hideous still: These halls were carved by men while yet they breathed. God is no parent or policeman grim dispensing treats or punishments to all. Each soul climbs or descends by its own whim. He mourns, but He cannot prevent their fall. We suffer as we choose. Nothing's amiss. All torments are deserved...”",
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                        "text": "John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.",
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                        "text": "“The resurrection of the body - what do we really mean by this? ...Did not the mystics and sages of all times teach us that the positive meaning of death is precisely that it liberates us from the prison of the body, as they say, from this perennial dependency on the material, physical, and bodily life - finally rendering our souls light, weightless, free, spiritual? We [must] consider more profoundly the meaning of the body... We must consider the role of the body in our, in my, life. On the one hand, of course it is entirely clear that all of our bodies are transitory and impermanent. Biologists have calculated that all the cells that compose our bodies are replaced every seven years. Thus, physiologically, every seven years we have a new body. Therefore, at the end of my life the body that is laid in the grave or consumed by fire is no longer the same body as all the preceding ones, and in the final analysis each of our bodies is nothing other than our individual [being] in the world, as the form of my dependence on the world, on the one hand, and of my life and of my activity on the other. In essence, my body is my relationship to the world, to others; it is my life as communion and as mutual relationship. Without exception, everything in the body, in the human organism, is created for this relationship, for this communion, for this coming out of oneself. It is not an accident, of course, that love, the highest form of communion, finds its incarnation in the body; the body is that which sees, hears, feels, and thereby leads me out of the isolation of my *I*. But then, perhaps, we can say in response: the body is not the darkness of the soul, but rather the body is its freedom, for the body is the soul as love, the soul as communion, the soul as life, the soul as movement. And this is why, when the soul loses the body, when it is separated from the body, it loses life.”",
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                        "text": "“If the Gospel of Judas found in Codex Tchacos can be convincingly identified as being a Coptic translation of the original Greek Gospel of Judas that Bishop Ireneaus mentioned around A.D. 180 in his book, \"Against Heresies,\" it will be an important step in the study of ancient gnosticism. We would have for the first time the chance to trace back the history of Sethian gnosticism to before the time of Irenaeus. This would be a significant gain in our knowledge of early Christianity.”",
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                        "text": "Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.",
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                        "text": "“The study of theology is not merely a theoretical exercise of the intellect. It is a study of the living God, and of the wonders of all his works in creation and redemption. We cannot study this subject dispassionately! We must love all that God is, all that he says, and all that he does. \"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart\" (Deut. 6:5). Our response to the study of the theology of Scripture should be that of the psalmist who said, \"How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!\" (Ps. 139:17). In the study of the teachings of God's Word, it should not surprise us if we often find our hearts spontaneously breaking forth in expressions of praise and delight like those of the psalmist.”",
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                        "text": "Every faith uses some kind of tool to understand itself better. Faith seeks understanding. The Western tradition has used philosophy to understand the truths of the faith and you come up with theology. Where as, Islam at a certain point said: we'll use law. There are these four major, developed schools of Islamic jurisprudence.",
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                        "text": "“We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. The poor were clad in rags and skins -- they devoured crusts, and gnawed bones. The day of Science dawned, and the luxuries of a century ago are the necessities of to-day. Men in the middle ranks of life have more of the conveniences and elegancies than the princes and kings of the theological times. But above and over all this, is the development of mind. There is more of value in the brain of an average man of to-day -- of a master-mechanic, of a chemist, of a naturalist, of an inventor, than there was in the brain of the world four hundred years ago. These blessings did not fall from the skies. These benefits did not drop from the outstretched hands of priests. They were not found in cathedrals or behind altars -- neither were they searched for with holy candles. They were not discovered by the closed eyes of prayer, nor did they come in answer to superstitious supplication. They are the children of freedom, the gifts of reason, observation and experience -- and for them all, man is indebted to man.”",
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                        "text": "Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?",
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                        "text": "We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline and a divine militancy coming upon the people of God. Those who have succumbed to humanistic and idealistic theologies may have a hard time with this, but we must understand that God is a military God. The title that he uses ten times more than any other is \"the Lord of Hosts\", or \"Lord of armies\". There is a martial aspect to his character that we must understand and embrace for the times and the job to which we are now coming.",
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                        "text": "“Those who hold to the Christian faith see law as an ultimate order of the universe. It is the invariable factor in a variable world, the unchanging order in a changing universe. Law for the Christian is thus absolute, final, and an aspect of God's creation and a manifestation of His nature. In terms of this, the Christian can hold that right is right, and wrong is wrong, that good and evil are unchanging moral categories rather than relative terms. From an evolutionary perspective, however, we have a very different concept of law. The universe is evolving, and the one constant factor is change. It is impossible therefore to speak of any absolute law. The universe has evolved by means of chance variations, and no law has any ultimacy or absolute truth. As a result when we talk about law, we are talking about social customs or mores and about statistical averages. Social customs change, and what was law to the ancient Gauls is not law to the modern Frenchmen. We can expect men's ideas of law to change as their societies change and evolve. Moreover, statistics give us an average and a mean which determine normality, and our ideas of law are governed by what is customary and socially accepted.”",
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                        "text": "The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance",
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                        "text": "From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).",
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                        "text": "“Don't assume you understand Naskar (Sonnet 2972) Naskar Science is Naskar Theology is Naskar Poetry is Naskar Philosophy - and do not even dare to assume you know what this means, unless you've left your seat to the elderly on a bus, joined the religious festivities of a neighbor from a different faith, defended someone's right to worship despite being an atheist yourself, offered a glass of water to someone from a different culture, or sheltered an immigrant family from your nation's fanatics.”",
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                        "text": "“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise. I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life.”",
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                        "text": "“We have often done well knowing the mind of God in our churches today. We have not done as well knowing His heart. We have largely become a church that pursues insights, principles, and theological concepts. No other church in history has had sounder theology or has known as much about God as many of our churches do today. However, we seem to know so little about His heart. Maybe this has troubled you, too. With all our insight, all our knowledge, all our information, and all our depth of theology, we seem to have so much difficulty functioning in the most basic Christian things, like personal holiness and loving people more than things. In our churches we are so easily hurt, and we hold on to those hurts for so long. We easily walk away from one another and quickly leave our churches when we experience disappointments and failures. There is often much judging and little compassion. Too many people remain alone in their pain. God desires to reveal His heart to us and to build His heart into us as we seek His face. Insight alone does not transform us; only the things that flow from the heart of God transform the lives of people. As God opens His heart to be known by us and as He builds His heart into us, His love will flow through us to those who are in desperate need of His forgiveness, His compassion, His healing, and His life.”",
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                        "text": "Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God, which seem at odds with their own spiritual traditions but have much in common with each other.",
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                        "text": "“For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observable nature of things. The poetic and theological idea that the universe is an expression of God's creative power is false. And yet the possibility that underlying the nature of things is an undiscoverable force of unimaginable simplicity that one may call God haunts and frustrates modern science. If this principle exists, then it cannot be different from our experience of it: it must be inherent, not transcendent; purely natural, therefore, not a violation of its own being, and hence intelligent, in the sense it requires coherence rather than chaos and confusion to exist at all--as the ancient myths tell us; impersonal to the extent that we cannot attribute moral purposes or even will, classically understood, to what we can observe of its operations. It is entirely coextensive and if it has a limit coterminous with what is--a perception that dates in theology from Anselm to Tillich and in natural philosophy from Democritus to Planck. It does not exist in gaps of undiscovered data or models or as an unsolved mystery but in the givenness of the world and the intelligent life form that has arisen to ponder it.”",
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                        "text": "“Everything hinges on the Christ of the cross. The fact of the cross is the axiom of theological thought. It is impossible to think about the gospel if we have the slightest hesitation on this point. We must determine to carry this theme throughout all the problems of theology without exception... The essence of God can be comprehended only from the 'word of the cross.”",
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                        "text": "“Always, in Lincoln's mature theology, there is paradox. There is starting this, yet there is also tenderness; there is melancholy, yet there is also humor: there is moral law, yet there is also compassion. History is the scene of the working out God's justice, which we can never escape, but it is also the scene of the revelation of the everlasting mercy.”",
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                        "text": "“Sonnet of Holy Water A new day starts with a new you, And I ain't talkin' about born again nonsense. A bigot baptized a thousand times is still a bigot, A human helping another is Christ himself. There is no second coming, there’s no reincarnation, Except when we go from selfishness to kindness. We are the messiahs and saviors of our people, Nobody's gonna fall from the sky to lift the helpless. The liquor store sells you the same divinity, That the holy store sells you for even higher price. We'll be born again when we abolish such divinity, By baptizing the soil of society with our sacrifice. The tears of joy someone sheds because of you, Are the only holy water to build the world anew.”",
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