Best Theologian Lines
219 Theologian quotes by 170 unique authors
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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 souls, and become…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
— J I Packer
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A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
— Martin Luther
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To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image…
— R C Sproul
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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 theologian nevertheless. The…
— R C Sproul
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One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
— C.S. Lewis
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Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like…
— H.G. Wells
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Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only…
— Mark Galli
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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
— Constance Baker Motley
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The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in…
— Adam Weishaupt
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The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old…
— Richard Stearns
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Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a…
— Mircea Eliade
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PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite…
— Peter Adamson
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
— David Hume
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The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?
— Randy Alcorn
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What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus,…
— Gordon Clark
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For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the…
— Robert M. Price
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Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his…
— H. L. Mencken
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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at…
— Lucy Larcom
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It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have…
— Mary McCarthy
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