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Theological cause without social political reality is only of interest to a professional religionist, — Anonymous

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest. — Philip Jenkins

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness. — Jurgen Moltmann

No one church model or theological tradition - can reach an entire city. Reaching — Timothy Keller

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. — Nancy Pearcey

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves. — Michel Quoist

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought. — Karl Barth

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes. — Paul Watson

For Watts, the doxological always followed the theological. — Douglas Bond

Their prayers were marked less by grandiose theological language and more by heartfelt praise and pleading. — David Platt

I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A — Friedrich Nietzsche

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people. — Diana Butler Bass

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind. — A.W. Tozer

Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The idea that Jesus rose on the 'third day' was originally a theological construct, not a historical piece of information. — Bart D. Ehrman

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure. — Max Anders

The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive. — Walter Rauschenbusch

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. — James Anthony Froude

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. — Edward Irving

In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality. — Alain De Benoist

Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will ... cure many current theological concerns. — Jay Kesler

A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship. — Billy Graham

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood. — Joseph Campbell

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

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. — William Barclay

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

Human beings are born of blood, bound by gravity, eventually to perish... fallible by design... destined. — Neil Charles

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

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination. — Cole Younger

Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological: — Michael S. Horton

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. — Jim Butcher

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God. — Helmut Thielicke

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI

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

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings. — Liz Williams

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences. — George Weigel

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. — Paul Kurtz

Ethical knowledge is the emplotment of one's life in the theological narrative — James K.A. Smith

. . . be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires. — William E. Hordern

Not only were people to be liberated from socio-political and economic oppression, but from theological oppression as well. — James A. Maxey

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

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse? — Ann Voskamp

Do I need to wriggle my breasts at you again?"
"No, please. I don't know if I'd be able to stand the theological debate that would follow. — Brandon Sanderson

At no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls. — James S.A. Corey

We must not think of this merely as a theological or metaphysical question. For — Roger Scruton

If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words. — Thomm Quackenbush

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience. — Rodger Kamenetz

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it ... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. — Jim Butcher

People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness. — Alistair Begg

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Atheism is too theological. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Holse wasn't about to get involved in any theological arguments. He looked serious and nodded, hoping this would do. — Iain M. Banks

And now they say my heart is failing. The doctor used the term "angina pectoris," which has a theological sound, like misericordia. — Marilynne Robinson

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. — Auguste Comte

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. — Kenneth Burke

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous ... and not in a good way. — Mark Hart

Many Christians have put the political cart before the theological horse. — Michael Babcock

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel. — John Piper

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. — Denis Diderot

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty. — Jan Hus

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

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer. — Gabriel Fackre

One of the greatest theological challenges of our time is to move our worship beyond self-absorption. — Kelly M. Kapic

Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination. — Alister E. McGrath

How to explain Time and Separateness back to God, Who had never thought of them, Who could let the whole world come to grief in a scattering moment? — Eudora Welty

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God. — Anne Lamott

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know. — Darcey Steinke

Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these. — Dallas Willard

Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy. — Don Hoesel

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. — Bill McKibben

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M.H. Abrams

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. — Felix Adler

I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. — David Novak

A nontheological faith cannot explain itself, but a too theological faith loses contact with the reason for its existence. (154) — Harold O.J. Brown

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity. — Namsoon Kang

It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another. — Mikhail Bakunin

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance. — David Novak

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope. — Dan Fogelberg

Your Promised Land is the place where God's personalized promises over your life become a living reality rather than a theological theory. — Beth Moore

Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy. — Michael Horton

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless. — Lewis Carroll

Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true. — Kevin DeYoung

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation. — George Sarton

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. — Rick Perlstein

No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children. — Irving Greenberg

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — Alan Watts

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student. — William, Saroyan

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

Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. — Milan Kundera

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Day by day we are summoned beyond a safe theological "knowledge of description" to one of unpredictable "acquaintance. — Susan S. Phillips

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's. — Hugh Ross

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff. — Tullian Tchividjian

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. — Wilfred Owen

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ... it is theological. — Sinclair B. Ferguson