Theologian Quotes - Page 13

• Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

  James Joyce

  Pride, Ruins, Sin

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.134, Collector's Library

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• The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.

  Galileo Galilei

  Fall, Would Be, Scandal

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• I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

  Karen Armstrong

  Missing, Catholic, Upbringing

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Jobs, Looks, World

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• I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

  John Wesley

  Mother, England, Christianity

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• In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Past, Influential

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• No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Issues, Theology

  R. C. Sproul (2009). “Knowing Scripture”, p.25, InterVarsity Press

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• The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

  Adrian Rogers

  Devil, Orthodox, Knows

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• The so-called sophisticated theologians, especially ones who are very nice, like Rowan Williams and Jonathan Sacks, you sometimes don't quite know where you are with them. You feel that when you attack them, you're attacking a wet sponge.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Sometimes, Sophisticated

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Teaching, Saint

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Jonathan Edwards is without a doubt the most brilliant mind America ever produced. I'm not talking about theologian; I'm talking about mind and everybody. I put him above Einstein and everybody else.

  Rick Warren

  Talking, America, Doubt

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding hands with every mainline Methodist, or what have you. Obviously, American Christianity was deeply divided in all kinds of ways at mid-century too. But there was a kind of convergence going on. Even though Reinhold Niebuhr, the great mainline Protestant theologian, didn't think highly of Billy Graham, he and Graham still, clearly, had more in common, both theologically and in their attitudes toward religion in public life.

  Ross Douthat

  Attitude, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  God, Responsibility, Interesting

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.8, Vintage

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• The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian Inspirational, Devil, Stills

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• A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.

  Karl Barth

  Communication, Eye, Waiting

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• The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude and one calculated not only to arouse all Scholastic philosophers and theologians but also to injure our holy faith by contradicting the Scriptures.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Attitude, Axes, Scary

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• Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.

  Peter Leithart

  Men, Vanity, Evil

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• Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

  George Weigel

  Want, Pursue, Elders

  Source: eppc.org

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• Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of reality, and of those elements in reality that support or threaten meaningful existence.

  James Luther Adams

  Meaningful, Reality, Support

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• My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Jobs, Father, Use

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something to teach all of us - including German theologian-bishops - about the truth of the Gospel and the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.

  George Weigel

  Doubt, Bishops, Kingdoms

  Source: eppc.org

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• The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians up through the Reformation held to this view. I myself would adopt it in a heartbeat except that nature seems to present such strong evidence against it.

  William A. Dembski

  Strong, Views, Order

  William A. Dembski (2009). “The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World”, p.55, B&H Publishing Group

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• I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

  Thomas A. Edison

  God, Believe, Doubt

  The Freethinker, Volume 90, 1970.

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• Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake and sing, but I, old fool, know less than you and worry over everything, instead of simply trusting in the heavenly Father’s care.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Morning, Father, Worry

  Richard Wurmbrand (1968). “Christ in the Communist Prisons”

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• I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

  Arthur Koestler

  Philosophy, Doors, Other Worlds

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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