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Theologian Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
- It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
More Theologian Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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… — Karl Barth
- God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father… — George MacDonald
- Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan
- In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in… — Charles Hodge
- In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the… — 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… — 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… — John Updike