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• More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Kindness, Real

  William Barclay (2000). “New Testament Words”, p.27, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Entrepreneur, Tools, Care

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• The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of simple faith, and is accordingly nowhere expressly taught in Holy Scripture

  James H. Cone

  Philosophical, Simple, Soul

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• The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

  Ronald Knox

  Catholic, Mind, Unorthodox

  Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1913). “Some Loose Stones: Being a Consideration of Certain Tendencies in Modern Theology Illustrated by Reference to the Book Called "Foundations,"”

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• There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological classification of happy horse manure! That's bologna, absolute bologna! They don't know anything about our religion, and I don't purport to know anything about theirs. I respect theirs, respect ours. When we make the sign of the cross, we are simply making a statement of faith. I believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and I believe in the sign of the cross, because that is the sign of our salvation!

  John Corapi

  Horse, Father, Believe

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• The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces; they are processes in flesh and blood... (the clergyman) will find that whether he wants it or not, he is also a front-line mental health worker or he will be so regarded by the specialists in mental health. It is on the pastoral role and the tasks of shepherding that the psychological disciples have the greatest impact in theological work.

  Paul Pruyser

  Past, Impact, Blood

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• A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

  George Weigel

  Bombs, Dramatic, Time Bomb

  George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan

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• "Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.

  Michio Kaku

  Mother, Children, Simple

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.191, OUP Oxford

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• All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

  Carl Schmitt

  Modern, Significant, States

  Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God.

  Sandra Marie Schneiders

  God, Christian, Sex

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• If you are going to help people discover God's original will for them, we've got to know what that will is, and He said it very clear in Scripture: He created man to have to dominion over earth. He wanted to establish man's authority on earth to represent heaven on earth, and most of our theological philosophy is completely opposite of that.

  Myles Munroe

  Philosophy, Men, Opposites

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• My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

  Jim Butcher

  Childhood, Stuff, Source

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• I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Believe, Past, Men

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• When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Global Warming, Argument

  "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Sex, Ambition, Biblical

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• Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.

  Bill Vaughan

  Strong, Differences, Issues

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• Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Spiritual, Political, World

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• Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

  Edward Jenks

  Military, Successful, Long

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

  J. G. Holland

  Christian, School, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 580, 1895.

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• Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

  Brenda Ueland

  Powerful, Science, Animal

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• ... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Artistic, Found, Variance

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Philosophical, Doe, Firsts

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.17, A&C Black

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• No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.

  Irving Greenberg

  Children, Burning, Made

  Irving Greenberg (1998). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.253, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

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• Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.

  Jean-Luc Marion

  Mean, Doe, Demand

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• It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it's what lets you pull on the line and reach what you're aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Anchors, Optimism

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