Theology Quotes - Page 9

• If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

  Jim Wallis

  War, Iraq, President

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• Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Believe, Normal, Discourse

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1972). “Selected writings: To commemorate the 60th birthday of Kenneth Lee Pike”

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• A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Views, World, Tiny

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.48, Penguin

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• The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!

  Sam Storms

  God, Religious, Learning

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• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  Harold Bloom

  Philosophical, School, Thinking

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• Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheist, Religion, Atrocities

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2008). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.274, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into a new law? Once we do that, religious fascism with all its sectarian ugliness cannot be far away. Far better a mistaken Christian (a heretic) who has somehow caught the Spirit of Christ, than an orthodox Protestant who thinks that the Spirit is mediated to him through the letter of correct theology.

  Robert D. Brinsmead

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Future, Raw Materials

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.61, 谷月社

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• I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

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• Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Educational, Angel

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.60, Routledge

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• Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where the very word 'religion' reminds one of dead churches and dead priests. It reminds one of serious looking people, long faces. It has lost the capacity to dance, to sing, to celebrate. And when a religion has lost the capacity to dance, to celebrate, to sing, to love, just to be, then it is no more religion - it is a corpse, it is theology. Theology is dead religion.

  Rajneesh

  Long, People, Religion

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• I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Believe, Artist, Dogma

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

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• The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a continual source of tranquil pleasure, and in spite of the gloomy dogmas of priests and of superstition, the study of these things is the true theology; it teaches man to know and admire the Creator, for the principles of science are in the creation, and are unchangeable and of divine origin.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  Thomas Paine (2003). “The Age of Reason”, p.118, Book Tree

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• Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

  Mortimer Adler

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Science

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• I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

  Al Sharpton

  Philosophy, People, Biographies

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• Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Loss, Gun

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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• I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Giving, Political

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• I do not believe that God intended the study of theology to be dry and boring. Theology is the study of God and all his works! Theology is meant to be LIVED and PRAYED and SUNG! All of the great doctrinal writings of the Bible (such as Paul's epistle to the Romans) are full of praise to God and personal application to life.

  Wayne Grudem

  Believe, Writing, Dry

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.15, Zondervan

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• No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

  John Stott

  Christian, Focus, Doe

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

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• The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Thinking, Spirit

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• Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

  Charles Colson

  Life Is, Midst, Mess

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• Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

  Larry Graham

  Religious, Healing, People

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• Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

  Christian Wiman

  Funny, Art, Paradox

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• We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary, Want, Results

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