Theologian Quotes

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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. — Mortimer Adler
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without… — Eric Alterman
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe… — Wernher von Braun
The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord… — Karl Barth
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven. — George MacDonald
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot… — Carl Sagan
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… — Charles Hodge
In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians,… — Augustus Hopkins Strong
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that… — E. O. Wilson
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which… — Carl Sagan
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that… — Karl Pearson
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to… — Robert Farrar Capon
I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters. — Oscar Wilde
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study… — John B. S. Haldane
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this… — Louis Agassiz
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his… — Abraham Lincoln
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters… — Daniel Dennett

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