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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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• Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.

  Os Guinness

  Integrity, Sleep, Errors

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• The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

  John Gresham Machen

  Children, Progress, Knows

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• One man's pornography is another man's theology.

  Clive Barker

  Men, Pornography, Another Man

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 21, 2013

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• Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heaven, Legends, Crime

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind". www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• ...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Cost, Benefits, Matter

  Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.304, Penguin UK

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• The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Essence, Ideas, Religion

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• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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• Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Philosophy, Book, Eye

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

  Herbert McCabe

  Talking, Discipline, Nonsense

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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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• Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

  James A. Garfield

  Believe, Doctrine, May

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.223, Best Books on

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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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• Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Savages, Village

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

  Luther Burbank

  Insanity, Positive Atheism

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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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• Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.

  Sam Harris

  Ignorance, Branches, Littles

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.173, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Facts, Theory, Damn

  "A Huge Water Geyser on Saturn’s Moon Helps Make the Rings, and a Bonus Eclipse From Mars". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Believe, Want, Posts

  "Quote of the Week: William James on Theology". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. June 04, 2012.

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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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• 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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• It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

  Lydia M. Child

  Evil, Done, World

  "The Progress of Religious Ideas Through Successive Ages". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Volume 3, 1855.

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• Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Jesus, Eye, Biblical

  Entry for October 01, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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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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• Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Positive Atheism, Sufferers

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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