Theology Quotes - page 2

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close. (Jerry Coyne)
Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe. View quote
Jerry Coyne
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism. View quote
H. L. Mencken
It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs. View quote
Pat Condell
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends - anything that will drag in a few more people. View quote
Robertson Davies
Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism. View quote
Oswald Spengler
Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation. View quote
Rudolf Bultmann
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology. (Pierre Trudeau)
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. View quote
Larry Wall
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. View quote
Albert Einstein
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. View quote
Albert Einstein
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos - the "intellectual sacrifice”- is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of "science” and the sphere of "the holy” is unbridgeable. View quote
Max Weber
It is not infrequently our custom to seek to cover our own blank ignorance of certain subjects with the confident assertion that nothing ever has been or can be really known... and our treatment of this question of the life after death is one of the worst examples of this habit. If popular theology had not most unhappily altogether lost sight of the cardinal doctrine of reincarnation, its· views on this subject of death would naturally be entirely different. A man who realizes that he has died many times before regards the operation more philosophically than one who believes it to be an absolutely new experience fraught with all kinds of vague· and awful possibilities. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
As medieval Christian man could only conceive of religion in terms of a trinity, so his modern descendant can only conceive of politics in terms of a theology or, as we now say, ideology, of left-wing and right-wing forces and factions. View quote
Bernard Lewis
Theology is anthropology. View quote
Anselm Feuerbach
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. View quote
Alfred Loisy
I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband. View quote
Ali Landry
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. (John Gresham Machen)
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. View quote
Krista Tippett
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. View quote
Lionel Blue
For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. View quote
Mike McCurry
To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ. View quote
Tullian Tchividjian