Theology Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some Christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. People attempt to take possession of God. Theology claims to explain everything, including the being of God. People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position ­ that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, People, Religion

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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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• The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Doe, World, Dogma

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Moody's Anecdotes”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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• Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Ideas, Bird

  "This milquetoast consensus is unnerved by radical faith" by Tristram Hunt, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2007.

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• The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.

  Agnivesh

  God, Empowering, Empowerment

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Change, Spiritual, Stars

  "The Living of These Days : An Autobiography". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1956.

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• Theology is only thought applied to religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

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• The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.

  Julian Huxley

  Science, Destiny, Men

  Julian Huxley (1957). “New Bottles for New Wine: Essays”

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• The world's theology is easy to define.
  It is the view that human beings are basically good,
  that no one is really lost,
  that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Jesus, Views, World

  James Montgomery Boice (1986). “Foundations of the Christian Faith”, p.674, InterVarsity Press

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• I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Kids, Glasses

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• Mission is 'the mother of theology'.

  Martin Kahler

  Mother, Missions

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• Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Secret, Attention

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.

  James K. Baxter

  Christian, Church, Inward

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• A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Religious, Persons

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• I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moral, Rhetoric

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2730, Delphi Classics

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• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

  Luther Burbank

  Book, Religion, Judgment

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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