Badness Quote by John Piper Download Open image “Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.” — John Piper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Badness Dishonor Hurt Hurt People People Proportion Theology
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“ You have a poem called “Bad Theology.” What would you call a bad theology? I guess any theology that presumes to have God… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil (this is traditionally called the problem of theodicy) is insurmountable.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“job 14:1 man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of troubles "If that isn't your experience now it… — John Piper Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
“If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the… — Lon Chaney, Jr Copy Share Image
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.” — Daniel T. O'Hara Copy Share Image
