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> [Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-wilson/leibniz-accepted-the-argument-that-there-must-be-indestructible/)

[Catherine Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-wilson/)

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> ["Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-a-carson/biblical-theology-refers-to-something-more-precise-than-theology-that/)

[D. A. Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-a-carson/)

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> [“It is, of course, essential to remember that theology is not merely a matter of intellect, but also of experience. Theology is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-l-brown/it-is-of-course-essential-to-remember-that-theology-is-not-merely-a/)

[Michael L. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-l-brown/)

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> [Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-e-hunt/margaret-miles-offers-a-stunning-treatment-of-human-experience/)

[Mary E. Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-e-hunt/)

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> [The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josef-pieper/the-delight-we-take-in-our-senses-is-an-implicit-desire-to-know-the/)

[Josef Pieper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josef-pieper/)

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> [“I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/i-sometimes-find-especially-among-my-peers-that-authenticity-is-not-a/)

[Kevin DeYoung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-deyoung/)

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> [This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/this-is-the-process-of-self-realization-about-which-eastern-mystics/)

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

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> [Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilla-ricker/religion-is-not-the-hero-of-the-day-but-the-zero-in-any-exposition-of/)

[Marilla Ricker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilla-ricker/)

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> [Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/note-to-day-an-instructive-curious-spectacle-and-conflict-science/)

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

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> [“Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolph-saphir/creation-is-the-result-but-not-the-beginning-of-love-redemption-is/)

[Adolph Saphir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolph-saphir/)

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> [There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/there-are-only-two-places-where-the-powerful-and-great-in-this-world/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [“Theologians, and religionists in general, start with a fantasy premise and then proceed to apply rigorous formal logic to tease out its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-bernstein/theologians-and-religionists-in-general-start-with-a-fantasy-premise/)

[Andrew Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-bernstein/)

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> [Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-ebert/catholic-theology-accounts-for-the-fact-that-there-s-evil-in-the/)

[Roger Ebert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-ebert/)

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> [I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/i-cannot-conceive-of-a-god-who-rewards-and-punishes-his-creatures-or/)

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

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> [This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/this-is-the-doctrine-that-we-preach-if-a-man-be-saved-all-the-honor/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/there-are-many-many-discrepant-views-within-the-shia-theology-about/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-korzybski/dogmatic-theology-is-by-its-very-nature-unchangeable-the-same-can-be/)

[Alfred Korzybski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-korzybski/)

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> [“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers, religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps. Bigger than science, bigger than religion, I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/science-can-produce-vaccines-or-gas-chambers-religion-can-initiate/)

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

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> [“Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-wallis/sometimes-in-history-the-name-of-god-has-been-invoked-on-behalf-of/)

[Jim Wallis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-wallis/)

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> [“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-conant/charles-kahn-offers-the-following-summary-of-how-a-new-metaphysics/)

[James Conant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-conant/)

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> [“Theology is not an excursion into the stratosphere that lies beyond scriptural sppech in time: it may not travel beyond the borders…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-c-berkouwer/theology-is-not-an-excursion-into-the-stratosphere-that-lies-beyond/)

[G C Berkouwer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-c-berkouwer/)

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> [God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-robertson/god-created-the-world-the-laws-of-nature-were-created-by-god-true/)

[Pat Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-robertson/)

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> [“No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-f-torrance/no-scientist-ever-begins-his-work-de-novo-while-he-works-with-the/)

[T.F. Torrance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-f-torrance/)

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> [“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-l-alder/naive-people-tend-to-generalize-people-as-good-bad-kind-or-evil-based/)

[Shannon L. Alder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-l-alder/)

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> [Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-w-wood/kant-s-treatments-of-rational-theology-and-metaphysics-were-aimed/)

[Allen W. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-w-wood/)

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> [“Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-t-wright/don-t-misunderstand-me-the-terrorist-actions-of-al-qaeda-were-and-are/)

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

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> [Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-a-maxwell/our-goals-should-stretch-us-bit-by-bit-so-often-when-we-think-we-have-2/)

[Neal A. Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-a-maxwell/)

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> [“His theology is mostly focused on helping people with their physical needs. All that's important, of course, but he'll hit a dry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-marshall/his-theology-is-mostly-focused-on-helping-people-with-their-physical/)

[Catherine Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-marshall/)

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> [“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/the-theologians-dead-knew-no-more-than-the-theologians-now-living/)

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

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> [“Think of a potter taking a misshapen bowl from his wheel and pounding it back into the tub of clay. A soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-j-bishop/think-of-a-potter-taking-a-misshapen-bowl-from-his-wheel-and-pounding/)

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

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> [“The return to the “Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name” allows me to let my dad be no less than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-j-m-nouwen/the-return-to-the-father-from-whom-all-fatherhood-takes-its-name/)

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

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> [“\*There is only one God\*. Whatever exists is \*ipso facto\* individual; to be one it needs no extra property and calling it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/there-is-only-one-god-whatever-exists-is-ipso-facto-individual-to-be/)

[Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/)

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> [“There is a thought among some brands of theology that souls are waiting up in heaven to be born. Now how in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-m-schulz/there-is-a-thought-among-some-brands-of-theology-that-souls-are/)

[Charles M. Schulz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-m-schulz/)

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> [“Discussion of theology is not for everyone, I tell you, not for everyone-it is no such inexpensive or effortless pursuit. Nor, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-of-nazianzus/discussion-of-theology-is-not-for-everyone-i-tell-you-not-for/)

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

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> [“The Three Idiots: Lucifer, JC, and Naskar (Neuroskit, Sonnet 2568-2569) The other day Lucifer called, I got frustrated, and yelled, "would you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/the-three-idiots-lucifer-jc-and-naskar-neuroskit-sonnet-2568-2569-the/)

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

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> [The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/the-disappearance-of-theology-from-the-life-of-the-church-and-the/)

[David F. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-wells/)

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> [I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-pius-xii/i-am-worried-by-the-blessed-virgin-s-messages-to-lucy-of-fatima-this/)

[Pope Pius XII](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-pius-xii/)

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> [We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-drewermann/we-see-in-the-20th-century-an-unfortunate-trench-warfare-in-which/)

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

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> [“Ye can know nothing of the end of all things, or nothing expressible in those terms. It may be, as the Lord…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/ye-can-know-nothing-of-the-end-of-all-things-or-nothing-expressible/)

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

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> [In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-hodge/in-every-system-of-theology-therefore-there-is-a-chapter-de-libero/)

[Charles Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-hodge/)

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                        "text": "\"Biblical theology\" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.",
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                        "text": "“It is, of course, essential to remember that theology is not merely a matter of intellect, but also of experience. Theology is concerned with spiritual realities, and must include personal experience as well as ideas ... The feeling equally with reason must share in the consideration of theology, because theology is of the heart, and the deepest truths are inextricably bound up with personal needs and experiences.17”",
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                        "text": "Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a foundational text, she draws on the arts, philosophy and theology, and her experience as a hospice volunteer to explore concrete alternatives to privileging the rational mind. Her erudition, wisdom, and graceful writing are compelling proof of the intelligent body.",
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                        "text": "The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.",
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                        "text": "“I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic. Granted, the church shouldn’t be happy-clappy naive about life’s struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week”",
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                        "text": "This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much Western theology has devoted itself. This is a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, moment-to-moment act of supreme consciousness. It is a choosing and a re-choosing every instant. It is ongoing creation. Conscious creation. Creation with a purpose. It is using the tools of creation we have discussed, and using them with awareness and sublime intention.",
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                        "text": "Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize. . . . Man has asked for truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time.",
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                        "text": "Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.",
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                        "text": "“Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to a love of absolute necessity and eternity. God is love, not God became love... It is this love that we are planted by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus.”",
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                        "text": "There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ…No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.",
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                        "text": "“Theologians, and religionists in general, start with a fantasy premise and then proceed to apply rigorous formal logic to tease out its implications. Stark himself points out that “theology consists of formal reasoning about God.” This is admirably exact. Theologians, beginning with a wished-for creation of their own minds, analyze that creation’s characteristics by rigorous application of the principles of formal—that is, deductive—logic.”",
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                        "text": "Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God did was set the mechanism in motion and then allow people to do the best they can under the circumstances that they're dealt in order to gain grace and get into heaven.",
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                        "text": "I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.",
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                        "text": "This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.",
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                        "text": "There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication.",
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                        "text": "“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law was and is to protect the past and present status of society and, by its very essence, must be very conservative, if not reactionary. Theology and law are both of them static by their nature. Philosophy, law and ethics, to be effective in a dynamic world must be dynamic; they must be made vital enough to keep pace with the progress of life and science. In recent civilization ethics, because controlled by theology and law, which are static, could not duly influence the dynamic, revolutionary progress of technic and the steadily changing conditions of life; and so we witness a tremendous downfall of morals in politics and business. Life progresses faster than our ideas, and so medieval ideas, methods and judgments are constantly applied to the conditions and problems of modern life. This discrepancy between facts and ideas is greatly responsible for the dividing of modern society into different warring classes, which do not understand each other. Medieval legalism and medieval morals- the basis of the old social structure-being by their nature conservative, reactionary, opposed to change, and thus becoming more and more unable to support the mighty social burden of the modern world, must be adjudged responsible in a large measure for the circumstances which made the World War inevitable.”",
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                        "text": "“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers, religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps. Bigger than science, bigger than religion, I'm the missing vector of the equation - without me your sciences are just spare parts, and your religions are just dead habits. I'm the link between matter and mind, I'm the life between the lines - I'm the spark that breathes sapiens into slime, I'm the safe space nestled in time.”",
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                        "text": "“Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul and lifted the body politic to a higher plane. Take the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and the American civil rights movement, or Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the struggle against South African apartheid, as examples. Other times religious fervor has been employed for the worst kinds of sectarian and violent purposes. The Ku Klux Klan, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and David Koresh's Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas, are frightening examples. Is there a reliable guide to when we are really hearing the voice of God, or just a self-interested or even quite ungodly voice in the language of heaven? I think there is. Who speaks for God? When the voice of God is invoked on behalf of those who have no voice, it is time to listen. But when the name of God is used to benefit the interests of those who are speaking, it is time to be very careful.”",
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                        "text": "“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical development is that existence in the modern sense becomes a central concept in philosophy only in the period when Greek ontology is radically revised in the light of a metaphysics of creation; that is to say, under the influence of biblical religion. As far as I can see, this development did not take place with Augustine or with the Greek Church Fathers, who remained under the sway of classical ontology. The new metaphysics seems to have taken shape in Islamic philosophy, in the form of a radical distinction between necessary and contingent existence: between the existence of God on the one hand, and that of the created world on the other.' The new metaphysics that takes shape in Islamic philosophy proves fateful for subsequent philosophy in various ways. What will interest us immediately below is how it plays a role in triggering a debate about how to conceive divine creation. What will be of implicit interest later in these replies is how a remarkably unvarnished version of this new metaphysics comes to be detached from its original theological context. The ensuing detheologized modal metaphysics remains in force in some quarters of analytic philosophy, even though it takes its point of departure from a topic (how to understand the act of divine creation) that is no longer of much interest to most analytic philosophers. For the new metaphysics introduces concepts and ways of thinking that, once divested of their theological garb, continually resurface in the history of philosophy up to the present day.”",
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                        "text": "“Theology is not an excursion into the stratosphere that lies beyond scriptural sppech in time: it may not travel beyond the borders of faith's perspective. Beyond the word of Scripture we dare not go, in speech or theological reflection; for it is in this word that God's love in Jesus Christ is revealed. There is nothing beyond that.”",
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                        "text": "God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.",
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                        "text": "“No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he builds on knowledge already achieved and engages in a movement of advance. But it is one of the worst characteristics of theological study, whether in biblical interpretation or in dogmatic formulation, that every scholar nowadays thinks he must start all over again, and too many give the impression that no one ever understood this or that until they came along.”",
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                        "text": "“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world. 1. He divorced the mother of his children, which caused Mileva, his wife, to have a break down and be hospitalized. 2.He was a ladies man and was known to have had several affairs; infidelity was listed as a reason for his divorce. 3.He married his cousin. 4.He had an estranged relationship with his son. 5. He had his first child out of wedlock. 6. He urged the FDR to build the Atom bomb, which killed thousands of people. 7. He was Jewish, yet he made many arguments for the possibility of God. Yet, hypocritically he did not believe in the Jewish God or Christianity. He stated, “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”",
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                        "text": "Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of \"special metaphysics\" in Wolff and Baumgarten was always double-edged. He did see them as pseudo-sciences but also valued their doctrinal value and especially their regulative value for the empirical sciences. Like his views about religion, I don't think any of this is any longer viable in its original form.",
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                        "text": "“Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a whole was a pure, innocent victim, so that the world could be neatly divided up into evil people (particularly Arabs) and good people (particularly Americans and Israelis), and that the latter had a responsibility now to punish the former, is a large-scale example of what I’m talking about - just as it is immature and naive to suggest the mirror image of this view, namely that the western world is guilty in all respects and that all protestors and terrorists are therefore completely justified in what they do. In the same way, to suggest that all who possess guns should be locked up, or (the American mirror-image of this view) that everyone should carry guns so that good people can shoot bad ones before they can get up to their tricks, is simply a failure to think into the depths of what’s going on.”",
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                        "text": "Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it. Just as correct principles, when applied, carry their own witness that they are true, so do correct personal improvement programs. But we must not expect personal improvement without pain or some 'remodeling.' We can't expect to have the thrills of revealed religion without the theology. We cannot expect to have the soul stretching without Christian service.",
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                        "text": "“His theology is mostly focused on helping people with their physical needs. All that's important, of course, but he'll hit a dry spell someday and need something more than social causes to keep him going.\" ... \"if you're serious about writing on the deeper life, you simply cannot ignore the centrality of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.”",
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                        "text": "“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is known,—about another world, nothing. Our fathers were intellectual serfs, and their fathers were slaves. The makers of our creeds were ignorant and brutal. Every dogma that we have, has upon it the mark of whip, the rust of chain, and the ashes of fagot. Our fathers reasoned with instruments of torture. They believed in the logic of fire and sword . They hated reason. They despised thought. They abhorred liberty.”",
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                        "text": "“Think of a potter taking a misshapen bowl from his wheel and pounding it back into the tub of clay. A soul suffers while it is being pounded in this way, and suffers until it ceases to be. You are pounded down, and that which was you gets into something else. God tries again, and tries until the Work is complete. Meanwhile you, my son, are long gone”",
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                        "text": "“The return to the “Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name” allows me to let my dad be no less than the good, loving, but limited human being he is, and to let my heavenly Father be the God whose unlimited, unconditional love melts away all resentments and anger and makes me free to love beyond the need to please or find approval.”",
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                        "text": "“*There is only one God*. Whatever exists is *ipso facto* individual; to be one it needs no extra property and calling it one merely denies that it is divided. Simple things are neither divided nor divisible; composite things do not exist when their parts are divided. So existence stands or falls with individuality, and things guard their unity as they do their existence. But what is simply speaking one can yet in certain respects be many: an individual thing, essentially undivided, can have many non-essential properties; and a single whole, actually undivided, can have potentially many parts. Only when one is used to count with does it presuppose in what it counts some extra property over and above existence, namely, quantity. The one we count with contrasts with the many it counts in the way a unity of measurement contrasts with what it measures; but the individual unity common to everything that exists contrasts with plurality simply by lacking it, as undividedness does division. A plurality is however *a* plurality: though simply speaking many, inasmuch as it exists, it is, incidentally, one. A continuum is homogeneous: its parts share the form of the whole (every bit of water is water); but a plurality is heterogeneous: its parts lack the form of the whole (no part of the house is a house). The parts of a plurality are unities and non-plural, though they compose the plurality not as non-plural but as existing; just as the parts of a house compose the house as material, not as not houses. Whereas we define plurality in terms of unity (many things are divided things to each of which is ascribed unity), we define unity in terms of division. For division precedes unity in our minds even if it doesn’t really do so, since we conceive simple things by denying compositeness of them, defining a point, for example, as lacking dimension. Division arises in the mind simply by negating existence. So the first thing we conceive is the existent, then―seeing that this existent is not that existent―we conceive division, thirdly unity, and fourthly plurality. There is only one God. Firstly, God and his nature are identical: to be God is to be this individual God. In the same way, if to be a man was to be Socrates there would only be one man, just as there was only one Socrates. Moreover, God’s perfection is unlimited, so what could differentiate one God from another? Any extra perfection in one would be lacking in the other and that would make him imperfect. And finally, the world is one, and plurality can only produce unity incidentally insofar as it too is somehow one: the primary and non-incidental source of unity in the universe must himself be one. The one we count with measures only material things, not God: like all objects of mathematics, though defined without reference to matter, it can exist only in matter. But the unity of individuality common to everything that exists is a metaphysical property applying both to non-material things and to God. But what in God is a perfection has to be conceived by us, with our way of understanding things, as a lack: that is why we talk of God as lacking a body, lacking limits and lacking division.”",
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                        "text": "“There is a thought among some brands of theology that souls are waiting up in heaven to be born. Now how in the world anybody comes up with that is beyond me, and how you can be so sure of that is also beyond me. I always like to go back to Snoopy's theological writings, which he called, \"Has It Ever Occurred to You That You Might Be Wrong.\" And that's the way I feel. These things fascinate me, and I like to talk about them with other people, and hear what they think. But I'm always a little bit leery of people who are sure that they're right about things that nobody's ever been able to prove, and never will be able to prove.”",
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                        "text": "“Discussion of theology is not for everyone, I tell you, not for everyone-it is no such inexpensive or effortless pursuit. Nor, I would add, is it for every occasion, or every audience; neither are all its aspects open to inquiry. It must be reserved for certain occasions, for certain audiences, and certain limits must be observed. It is not for all people, but only for those who have been tested and have found a sound footing in study, and, more importantly, have undergone, or at the very least are undergoing purification of body and soul. For one who is not pure to lay hold of pure things is dangerous, just as it is for weak eyes to look at the sun's brightness. What is the right time? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually \"to be still\" in order to know God, and when we receive the opportunity, \"to judge uprightly\" in theology. Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements. What aspects of theology should be investigated, and to what limit? Only aspects within our grasp, and only to the limit of the experience and capacity of our audience. Just as excess of sound or food injures the hearing or general health, or, if you prefer, as loads that are too heavy injure those who carry them, or as excessive rain harms the soil, we too must guard against the danger that the toughness, so to speak, of our discourses may so oppress and overtax our hearers as actually to impair the powers they had before.”",
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                        "text": "“The Three Idiots: Lucifer, JC, and Naskar (Neuroskit, Sonnet 2568-2569) The other day Lucifer called, I got frustrated, and yelled, \"would you please stop ringing me every time an ape blames you for something!\" \"Easy for you to say, all you do is rewire their brains, it's I who gets blamed for it, for every damned sonnet of yours,\" replied Sam, practically fuming! \"Let me get your brother on the line, perhaps he could pour some sense into that hot head of yours,\" said I, and called JC - \"would you please tell your brother, that I'm not responsible for people's irrational outbursts!\" \"Can you blame him though, I mean, you kinda are,\" said the Nazarene, with a grin! \"And here I thought you're my friend,\" I replied, to which he said - \"stop whining, at your age they'd already crucified me, all they do to you so far is, make racist remarks!\" And before I could respond, my trance broke, and on the pages was this sonnet, with a final line: Lucifer, JC, and Naskar, it's all one, all human.”",
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                        "text": "The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss today, but oddly enough, not easy to prove. It is hard to miss in the evangelical world--in the vacuous worship that is so prevalent, for example, in the shift form God to the self as the central focus of faith, in the psychologized preaching that follows this shift, in the erosion of its conviction, in its strident pragmatism, in its inability to think incisively about the culture, in its reveling in the irrational.",
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                        "text": "I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.",
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                        "text": "We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.",
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                        "text": "“Ye can know nothing of the end of all things, or nothing expressible in those terms. It may be, as the Lord said to the Lady Julian, that all will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well. But it’s ill talking of such questions.’ ‘Because they are too terrible, Sir?’ ‘No. Because all answers deceive.”",
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                        "text": "In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality",
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