Theological Quotes - Page 8

• When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Global Warming, Argument

  "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Believe, Past, Men

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• My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

  Jim Butcher

  Childhood, Stuff, Source

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• Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Sex, Ambition, Biblical

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• Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Biblical, Opposites, Ideas

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• I have to try to remind people on both sides of the barque of Peter that there is room for us all and that we are not the first generation of Catholics to experience serious theological and pastoral differences of opinion. In fact, from the New Testament, strong leaders within the church disagreed openly. Eventually, the truly great ones found ways to heal conflicts and keep the Lord's flock united.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Strong, People, Leader

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• A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

  George Weigel

  Bombs, Dramatic, Time Bomb

  George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan

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• The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces; they are processes in flesh and blood... (the clergyman) will find that whether he wants it or not, he is also a front-line mental health worker or he will be so regarded by the specialists in mental health. It is on the pastoral role and the tasks of shepherding that the psychological disciples have the greatest impact in theological work.

  Paul Pruyser

  Past, Impact, Blood

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• There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological classification of happy horse manure! That's bologna, absolute bologna! They don't know anything about our religion, and I don't purport to know anything about theirs. I respect theirs, respect ours. When we make the sign of the cross, we are simply making a statement of faith. I believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and I believe in the sign of the cross, because that is the sign of our salvation!

  John Corapi

  Horse, Father, Believe

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• The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

  Ronald Knox

  Catholic, Mind, Unorthodox

  Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1913). “Some Loose Stones: Being a Consideration of Certain Tendencies in Modern Theology Illustrated by Reference to the Book Called "Foundations,"”

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• The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of simple faith, and is accordingly nowhere expressly taught in Holy Scripture

  James H. Cone

  Philosophical, Simple, Soul

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• The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Entrepreneur, Tools, Care

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• More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Kindness, Real

  William Barclay (2000). “New Testament Words”, p.27, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Character, Church, Calvinism

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

  Jim Palmer

  Past, Discovery, Years

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• Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

  Alan Watts

  Lonely, Islands, Normal

  Alan Watts (1973). “Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship”, Vintage

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• It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

  Douglas MacArthur

  Spiritual, Art, Character

  "Life's A Dive". Documentary, Short, Adventure, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Atheism is too theological.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheism

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• I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Believe, Scope, Rational

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• Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

  Carl R Trueman

  Taken, Use, Sophisticated

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• If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

  William James

  Ideas, Relation, Being True

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, People, Way

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.15, Franciscan Media

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• ... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Artistic, Found, Variance

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

  Brenda Ueland

  Powerful, Science, Animal

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, School, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 580, 1895.

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