Theology Quotes
485 quotes by 325 authors
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
— Irving Babbitt
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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
— Karl Barth
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
— Karl Barth
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
— John Burroughs
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
— John Calvin
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My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have…
— Tony Campolo
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday…
— Jimmy Carter
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will…
— Julian Huxley
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Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into…
— Robert D. Brinsmead
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In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and…
— Charles Hodge
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action…
— Albert Einstein
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither…
— Albert Einstein
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The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
— Albert Einstein
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I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The…
— Albert Einstein
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