Best Theologian Sayings
219 Theologian quotes by 170 unique authors
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
— Ronald Knox
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Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
— Flannery O'Connor
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A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
— Thomas Merton
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Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
— D. Elton Trueblood
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Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
— Karl Barth
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Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is…
— Karl Rahner
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But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.
— Charles M. Schulz
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Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.
— Krister Stendahl
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
— Pope John Paul II
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The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.
— Thomas Oden
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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health…
— Walter Brueggemann
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And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.
— Gabriel Fackre
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O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
— Philip Yancey
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A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be…
— Richard Rohr
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If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.
— Stephen Colbert
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Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God writes a lot…
— Garrison Keillor
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it's not for…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. There really is only one, and that is this: To fulfill the…
— Oprah Winfrey
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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered…
— James Joyce
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