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Theological Quotes by Pope Francis
- It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls…
- There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say so-the discovery of…
- Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot…
More Theological Quotes
- St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies… — Tony Campolo
- Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann
- In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about… — Jim Cymbala
- [Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the… — N. T. Wright
- Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — Bertrand Russell
- Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is… — Ronald Knox
- Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. — Denis Diderot
- Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll
- To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks
- For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche