Best Theologian Quotes
219 Theologian quotes by 170 unique authors
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Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what has variously been…
— Lynne McTaggart
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For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the…
— Robert Jastrow
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We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.
— Josemaria Escriva
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Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth...
— Heinrich Bullinger
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We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
— John Calvin
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Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
— Thomas More
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
— Thomas More
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Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
— Richard Baxter
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The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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If the person laughs well, they are a good person.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.
— George MacDonald
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The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
— Oswald Chambers
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Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.
— Helmut Thielicke
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The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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