Contradiction Quote by Ludwig Feuerbach Download Open image ““[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.”” — Ludwig Feuerbach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contradiction Contradictions Delusion Superstition
“Theology is a discipline that is at once oriented to the transcendent and thoroughly located in a particular time and place. It arises out… — Christine Helmer Copy Share Image
“Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“When theology is fixated on the task of clarifying topics as categories, theology becomes esoteric and disconnected from the lived experience where Christian faith… — Frederick L. Ware Copy Share Image
“God, in the sense defined, is a delusion; and, as later chapters will show, a pernicious delusion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.” — Gerhard Ebeling Copy Share Image
“Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.” — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“The constant challenge in Christian theology is to preach the whole counsel of God, while not emphazing one point of doctrine in a way… — Joel R. Beeke Copy Share Image
“theology is not the study of ideas about God; it is the study of the living God.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God. — Herbert McCabe Copy Share Image
“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Religion annexes to its doctrines a curse and a blessing … Blessed is he that believeth, cursed is he that believeth not. Thus it… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man? — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Because of … this concentration of all that is universal and real in one personal being, God is a deeply moving object, enrapturing to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The salvation of the soul is the fundamental idea, the main point in Christianity; … this salvation lies only in God … But God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[T]o think God is therefore to affirm what God is, to establish the being of God as an act. That God is thought, cognised,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal;… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“In Christianity … morality is even made the criterion of piety; but ethics have nevertheless a subordinate rank, they have not in themselves a… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“[A]lthough the deeds opposed to love which mark Christian religious history, are in accordance with Christianity, and its antagonists are therefore right in imputing… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance,… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“A truth is not necessary, because we negatively are not able to conceive the actual existence of the opposite thereof;but a truth is necessary… — R.L. Dabney Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
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![“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even his political vindictiveness; so the Christian made the requirements of human feeling the absolute powers and laws of the world. [T]hat is, indeed, only of man considered…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd1/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_abrahamism_as-israel-made-the-wants-of-his-national_31284.jpg)
![“Religion annexes to its doctrines a curse and a blessing … Blessed is he that believeth, cursed is he that believeth not. Thus it appeals not to reason, but to feeling, … to the passions of hope and fear. … [T]he fear of hell urges me to believe. Even supposing my belief to be in its origin free…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70b/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_religion-annexes-to-its-doctrines-a-curs_35960.jpg)
![“[T]o think God is therefore to affirm what God is, to establish the being of God as an act. That God is thought, cognised, is essential; that this tree is thought, is to the tree accidental, unessential. … [H]ow is it possible that God – if he is to exist for us, to be an object to us – must…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef5/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_quote_t-o-think-god-is-therefore-to-affirm-wha_219124.jpg)
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![“[A]lthough the deeds opposed to love which mark Christian religious history, are in accordance with Christianity, and its antagonists are therefore right in imputing to it the horrible actions resulting from dogmatic creeds; those deeds nevertheless at the same time contradict Christianity…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ab/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_accepting-love_a-lthough-the-deeds-opposed-to-love-whic_414411.jpg)
