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A gentle smile mends chaotic hearts more surely than entire master plans; sometimes the unknown ripples instigated by a single microkindness have the power to cradle our very complexities.
Author:
Celeste Huang
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Amidst the noisy thrum of city life, silence invites reflection--where urban cavities brim with an intricate clarity, the ear bathes in solidity and the soul finds its reverie.
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Eliana Browne
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In the gentle space of muted words, healing presides; between uncertain breaths lies a mind rich with reckless clarity.
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Elara Watson
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To perceive nature's design is to witness a poetic language entwining chaos and order, where each leaf whispers secrets of resilience rescued from simpler thoughts.
Author:
Morgan Exploreton
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In the swiftly woven fabric of consciousness, we often find that equilibrium is achieved not through prolonged introspection, but rather in fleeting encounters that illuminate the bonds we've yet to recognize.
Author:
Elara Drummond
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
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Robert Wilson
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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E. Wilson
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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Walt Whitman
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If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.
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Lewis Tappan
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
Author:
Leslie Stephen
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
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Al Sharpton
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
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John Polkinghorne
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Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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Bill Moyers
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Christopher Morley
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I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
Author:
Sun Moon
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Author:
H. Mencken
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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.
Author:
Walter Martin
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In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Author:
Don Marquis
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Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
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John Machen
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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.
Author:
Alfred Loisy
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
Author:
Hans Kung
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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
Author:
Wyclef Jean
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
Author:
William James
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Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
Author:
Claudio Hummes
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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
Author:
Julia Howe
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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.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
Author:
John Frame
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Theology is anthropology.
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Anselm Feuerbach
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I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
Author:
Roger Ebert
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Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
Author:
Godfried Danneels
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Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.
Author:
Godfried Danneels
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Navigating intergenerational ethics challenges us to reconsider generosity and responsibility as dual voices echo through time; small decisions today create rocking waters for murmurings yet unheard.
Author:
Clara Notello
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Faith is more basic than language or theology.
Author:
Sydney Carter
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My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
Author:
Tony Campolo
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
Author:
John Burroughs
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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.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Author:
Harold Bloom
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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.
Author:
Daniel Bell
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
Author:
Karl Barth
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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.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Author:
Irving Babbitt
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There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.
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Athenagoras Athenagoras I
