Critical Quote by Stephen Batchelor

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never…

— John Gresham Machen

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

— Thomas Hood

“Being pious is not the same as being true.”

— Dr Aisling O'Donnell

From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings…

— Arthur Tappan Pierson

“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, . . . which is treating what is vague as if it were precise....”

— F. P. Ramsey

“If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell…

— William Law

“In an enigmatic world of indeterminate purpose and intent, it is not always possible to divide a thing into that which is right and…

— Herb J. Smith II

“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if…

— Anonymous

“We will have no generalizations. Mr. Bernard Shaw has put the view in a perfect epigram: "The golden rule is that there is no…

— G.K. Chesterton

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous

— Frederick Pollock

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

— Karl Barth