Theology Quotes - Page 30

• I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Cost

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.1987, Delphi Classics

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• The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Art, Views

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Science, Errors, Two

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• Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

  Herbert McCabe

  Talking, Discipline, Nonsense

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• Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  World, Bless, Curse

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• In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

  Henry Adams

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.72, Penguin

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• Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

  Matt Chandler

  Pain, Want

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• The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.

  Thomas Huxley

  Philosophy, Men, Infidelity

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.66, University of Georgia Press

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• Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Assured, Nothing New

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication,inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 82”, p.201, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

  William J. Clinton

  Religion, Should, Evidence

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• Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

  Luther Burbank

  Insanity, Positive Atheism

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• Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Positive Atheism, Sufferers

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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• Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Brilliant, Physicist, I Can

  "Pope's astronomer says he would baptise an alien if it asked him" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.

  Martin Gardner

  Book, Writing, Math

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• Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

  Luther Burbank

  Essence, Atheism, Fever

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• My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

  Philip Yancey

  Life, Mother, Thinking

  "Why was I spared from Amtrak Train 188's crash?". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2015.

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• We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message?

  Myles Munroe

  Teaching, School, Simple

  Source: encomium.ng

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• Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Practice, Class, Church

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Media, Differences, Everyday

  Source: www.crisismagazine.com

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• Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, Supposing That, Temptation

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Heart, Long

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• All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

  Sam Harris

  Civilized Nations, Earth, Condemnation

  "Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2013.

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• The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Divine, Divine Life

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• Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Missing, Encounters

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