Theological Quotes - Page 8

• To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Simple, Swings

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• Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Atheism, Rivals

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• The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

  H. L. Mencken

  Spiritual, Military, War

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• It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles... There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion... It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety.

  David Swing

  Men, Greatness, Should Have

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• Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions.

  Jay Kesler

  Understanding, Intellectual, Culture

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• If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Games, Play

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

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• Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

  Richard Dawkins

  Biblical, Interesting, Literature

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". "The Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Scary, Forever

  Source: www.npr.org

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• To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Dark, What Is Love

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.

  B. B. Warfield

  Problem, Providence, Clear

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• Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.

  Mark Batterson

  Reality, Doe, Add

  Mark Batterson (2009). “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”, p.79, Multnomah

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• These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, taught in our theological seminaries, proclaimed as God's law in our temples of worship, let us by all means call a council of women in New York, and give it one more revision from the woman's standpoint.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Inspiration

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• Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Made, Distinction, Anthropology

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1893). “The Essence of Christianity”

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• Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Simple, Worry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.118

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• If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

  William James

  Ideas, Relation, Being True

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• I have to try to remind people on both sides of the barque of Peter that there is room for us all and that we are not the first generation of Catholics to experience serious theological and pastoral differences of opinion. In fact, from the New Testament, strong leaders within the church disagreed openly. Eventually, the truly great ones found ways to heal conflicts and keep the Lord's flock united.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Strong, People, Leader

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• If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

  J. I. Packer

  Conceited, Proud, Sake

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• At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

  Hershel Shanks

  Hebrew, Prophetic, Wanted

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Students

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was.

  Paul Laffoley

  Thinking, People, Impossible

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a notion which I think is crude beyond all belief.

  Murray Bookchin

  Sorry, Thinking, Self

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be there on Sunday morning - I just sit there in a pew with my wife, that's all I do, but I'm very much a part of that congregation. We've got a fantastic rector,she brings in people from places like the United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, where you've got good teaching, and our people are being introduced to great material and they really respond. They're able to believe without crossing their fingers. And I think that's a real step forward.

  John Shelby Spong

  Morning, Real, Teaching

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

  Carl R Trueman

  Taken, Use, Sophisticated

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• I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Believe, Scope, Rational

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• Atheism is too theological.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheism

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