35 Theological Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nikola Tesla

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The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves. Richard Rohr

The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment. John Cornwell

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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. Hans Urs von Balthasar

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At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered. John Polkinghorne

Too Much Thinking Too Very Much Theological Present

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. John Polkinghorne

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma. Luis Alberto Urrea

Grace Karma Political Writer Mistaken Versus Theme Theological

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room. Asa Gray

You Wish Pulpit Echo Take Hear Nor Theological Granted

The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level. Benjamin Wittes

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I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be. Clive Barker

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. David Brooks

Logical Unknown Known Form Procedure Explain Theological Lunacy

Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process. David Novak

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The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputational terms. David Novak

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The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history. Eric Flint

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We're one of the only bands that get censored for theological commentary. Glenn Danzig

Only Commentary Bands Get Censored Theological

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator. John Ortberg

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Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. John Polkinghorne

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I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything. Joshua Cohen

God Technology Power Think Everything See Idea Since Continuation Hear Been Essentially Happening Theological Enlightenment

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Karl Marx

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I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological. Marilynne Robinson

Think Could Write Theological Novel

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