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118 Theologians quotes by 97 unique authors
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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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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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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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In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
— Arthur Peacocke
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Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
— John Polkinghorne
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Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a…
— John Polkinghorne
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The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.
— Robert Vaughn
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Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity…
— Dervla Murphy
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The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in…
— Godfried Danneels
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Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run…
— Galileo Galilei
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Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote…
— Frank Schaeffer
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Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.
— Max Planck
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The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is…
— Charles Fort
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Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence…
— Henry Adams
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It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent.…
— Criss Jami
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No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?
— Michael Dowd
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Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced…
— Anatole France
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You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of…
— Pope Francis
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