Theology Quotes

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal. Henri Nouwen
Hurt Conflict Words Unity Find Divide Main Heal Tasks Create Theology Unite
Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems. Krista Tippett
Life Depression You Experience Problems Not Perfect Spirituality Important Thinking Enriching Way Kinds Spiritually Perfect Could Had Part Also Make Important Part Up Grew Wanting Acknowledge Flaws Really Theology Now
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. Mikhail Bakunin
God Tyranny Will Long First Master Earth Supreme Revolt Heaven Against Theology Phantom Slaves
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. Robert A. Heinlein
Man Laugh Another Theology Belly
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. Albert Einstein
God Good Evil Believe Rewards Theology Who
Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu. Dada Vaswani
Today God Experience People Dinner Reading Philosophy Tell Eating About Menu Merely Between Difference Want Us Much Theology
Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken. Jim Elliot
God Broken You Word Will Free Down Final Philosophies Say Systematic Systems Be Careful Outline Individual No-One Bound Tie How Fit Cannot Which Theology Your Organized Creeds Set Careful
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. Karen Armstrong
Thoughts Words Poetry Takes Like End Which Us Should Theology
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity. Pope Benedict XVI
Religion Humanity Important Both Importance Tied Roles Essential Theology Reason Function Keep
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. Robert A. Heinlein
Dark Black Cat Never Cellar Any Anything Midnight Themselves Persuade Theologians Theology Help Searching
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. Robert Green Ingersoll
Best Religion Hell Worst Out Put Always Heaven Sent Us Theology Let Us
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole. Sam Harris
Yourself Humanity People Matter Christian Jews Liberal Validity Muslims Status Status Quo Tacit Morally Rather Merely Identified Identifying How Than Quo Against Lends Theology Your Whole Jew Christians
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense. Baron d'Holbach
Men Sense Morality Only True Principles Revelation Discover Gods Common Common Sense Theology Need
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Bill Moyers
Time History Power First Ideology Monopoly Our First Time Hold Theology Washington
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. Daniel Bell
Religion Experience People Organization Framework Religious Direct Rise Direct Experience Crumble Feel Institutional Cults Up Begins Break Break Up Which Theology Search
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things. Frederica Mathewes-Green
Jealousy Hurt People Pride Community Other Those Vanity Where Theological Theology Things Thinkers Vacuum
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world. Miroslav Volf
World Understanding About Mending Only Theology
I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life. Pope Benedict XVI
Positive Life Education Church Will Important Sense Liberation Must Both Rationality Term Know Always Private Private Life Very Offers Contribution Common Which Public Us Much Theology Help Fundamental Conscience Interpreted
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. Robert Anton Wilson
Recitation Pockets Pick Unspeakable Theology Function Incomprehensible
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. Walter Martin
You Bible Christ Christian Saviour Easter Know Makes Accord Whether Really Theology Your Jesus Jesus Christ
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. Al Sharpton
Love People Philosophy Kinds Rarely Some About Read Very Any Fiction Theology Biographies
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. Alfred Loisy
God Me Personality Projection Reflection Has-Been Kind Purified Seems More More And More Never Mythology Ideal Obvious Been Human Anything Upward Theology Notion Human Personality
I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband. Ali Landry
Life Class Husband Big Personal Life Had Big Event Personal Going Then Theology Event Found Started
Theology is anthropology. Anselm Feuerbach
Anthropology Theology
The text, 'Is God a White Racist', By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed. Anthea Butler
God Learning Construction Book Black White Side Liberation William Higher Studied Institute Academics Still Oppressed Question Text Chief Taught Theologians Theology Dr
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. Arthur Peacocke
Life Integrity Honesty World Pursuit Adult Adult Life Been Intellectual Western Decades Convinced Engaged Theology Certainly Many Now
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