Theology Quotes - Page 31

• Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Brilliant, Physicist, I Can

  "Pope's astronomer says he would baptise an alien if it asked him" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Missing, Encounters

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• The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Divine, Divine Life

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• As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.

  Martin Gardner

  Book, Writing, Math

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• There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.

  Christopher McDowell

  Spiritual, Book, Learning

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• All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

  Sam Harris

  Civilized Nations, Earth, Condemnation

  "Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, Supposing That, Temptation

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Media, Differences, Everyday

  Source: www.crisismagazine.com

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• Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Practice, Class, Church

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Religious, Curiosity, Wavering

  Charles Sanders Peirce “Scientific meta-physics”

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• God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

  John Piper

  God, Christian, Religious

  John Piper (2005). “For Your Joy”

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• The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health.

  Albert Mohler

  Promise, Littles, Too Much

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• We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

  Paul David Tripp

  Consciousness, Moments, Our Lives

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• Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

  R. C. Sproul

  Calvinism, Worldview, Five

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• If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

  Karen Armstrong

  Love, Sympathy, God

  Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor

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• It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

  John Piper

  Waste, Wasted Life, Loses

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• We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

  R. C. Sproul

  Feels, Determine, Word Of God

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2017

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• There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wrath, Ideas, America

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• There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

  John Calvin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  "The Value of Convenience: Genealogy of Technical Culture". Book by Thomas F. Tierney (p. 128), 1993.

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