Theology Quotes - Page 26

• Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  School, Ideas, Truth Is

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.53

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• Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.

  Francis Quarles

  Atheist, Philosophy, Journey

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.89

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• Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

  Joseph Joubert

  Law, Discipline, Religion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.

  Paul Tillich

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

  Bill Johnson

  Encounters, Divine, Satisfied

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• Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spring, Sunset

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• ...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Stressed, Christ, Crosses

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• I've written a book entitled 'Islam: the Challenges of Democracy,' because it is a challenge. It requires careful interpretation of the Islamic tradition and Islamic theology, and there's a lot in there that would support democratic ideals.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Book, Islamic, Democratic Ideals

  "The Great Theft". Interview with Melanie Colburn, www.motherjones.com. November 18, 2005.

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• Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology or canon law, the Islamic civilization boasted hundreds of women who were authorities in Islamic law and Islamic theology and that taught some of the most famous male jurists and left behind a remarkable corpus of writings.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Christian, Islamic, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

  Jonathan Swift

  Philosophy, Book, Writing

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.583, Delphi Classics

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• All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

  Melissa Pritchard

  Art, Prayer, Literature

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• Don't you ever change your theology to line up with your doubt.

  Karen Wheaton

  Doubt, Lines

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• Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Song, Brother, Struggle

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• Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Religious, Mean, Following Christ

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• In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

  Don Marquis

  Church, Devil, Males

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• Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

  Halldór Laxness

  Incredibles

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Knowing, People, Mind

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• I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Believe, Practice, Elements

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• I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

  Albert Einstein

  Fear, Believe, Thinking

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• Theology is ignorance with wings.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Ignorance, Wings

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• The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.

  Paul David Manson

  Worship, Deeper, Routes

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• It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces this spirit of worship. We might say that worship is simply theology, doctrine, what we think about God, going into top gear! Instead of merely thinking about Him, we tell Him, in prayer and praise and song, how great and glorious we believe Him to be!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Song, Prayer, Believe

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• Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Science, Attention, Chemistry

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• After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's A Defence of Tycho Against Ursus With Essays on its Provenance and Significance". Book by N. Jardine, 1984.

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• The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

  Florence Nightingale

  God, Religious, Character

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