Theologian Quotes - Page 18

• Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else?
  The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!

  Robert Musil

  Plato, Men, What Matters

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• It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

  Karl Kraus

  Believe, Heroic Deeds, Religion

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• The so-called Church Fathers are not some theologians as we know them nowadays. They were close to the teaching of the Apostles conveying the teaching of those who were close to Jesus. Their theology and wisdom is close to everyday life. We have to thank John Michael Talbot that he has been able to unearth the treasures of those times. This was only possible because he himself in his community experiences the Gospel lived out in our times.

  Notker Wolf

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Art, Literature, Systematic

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that devotion to our Blessed Lady is necessary to attain salvation.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Blessed, Holy Mary

  Saint Louis de Montfort (2016). “True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort”, p.25, Danka

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• The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Leadership, Majority, Favors

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• With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Religious, Government

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• The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Doctors, Atheism, Devil

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1078, Library of Alexandria

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• What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.

  Rob Bell

  Interesting, Looks, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine law. Indeed, some persons went so far as to question the lawfulness of strangling the witch before she was burnt. Her crime, they said, was treason against the Almighty, and therefore to punish it by any but the most agonizing deaths was an act of disrespect to Him. Besides, the penalty in the Levitical code was stoning, and stoning had been pronounced by the Jewish theologians to be a still more painful death than the stake.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Law, Painful Death, Punishment

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• Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Seriousness, Dose, Ultimate

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• The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Saint, Impossible, Difficulty

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.59, Discovery House

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• It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

  George MacDonald

  Heart, Laughing, Not Sure

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.6560, Delphi Classics

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• Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Men, Important

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• Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Long, Problem

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Opposites, Serious

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Girl, Men, Doe

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• If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jesus, Sense Of Humor, Trouble

  "Stephen Colbert to Fordham University students: 'I love my church'". www.foxnews.com. September 15, 2012.

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• A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.

  Richard Rohr

  Sarcastic, People, Laughing

  Richard Rohr (2010). “On the Threshold of Transformation”, p.197, Loyola Press

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• And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Brother, Healing, Grim

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• Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

  Mortimer Adler

  Philosopher, Scientist, Found

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• But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Aunt, Catholic, Saint

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2007). “The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church, 2nd Edition”, p.184, Ignatius Press

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• Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is felt even before they open their mouths. Only the person who has also a gift for affection can have a true sense of humor. A good laugh is a sign of love; it may be said to give us a glimpse of, or a first lesson in, the love that God bears for every one of us.

  Karl Rahner

  Giving, Laughing, Glimpse

  Karl Rahner (1973). “Belief today: three theological meditations”, Sheed & Ward Ltd

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• Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

  Karl Barth

  Self, Opposites, Admiration

  Karl Barth (2010). “Church Dogmatics Study Edition 20: The Doctrine of Creation III.4 § 55-56”, p.329, A&C Black

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• Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Sense Of Humor, Never Trust

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