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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. (Quote by - Kenneth L. Pike)

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel. (Quote by - Lewis Tappan)

See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. (Quote by - Bill Moyers)

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. (Quote by - John Polkinghorne)

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. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more. (Quote by - Godfried Danneels)

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)

Theology is the logic of the Devil. (Quote by - Jose Bergamin)

Theology is a science of mind applied to God. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

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. (Quote by - John Polkinghorne)

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. (Quote by - Robert Anton Wilson)

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. (Quote by - Walter Martin)

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. (Quote by - Leslie Stephen)

The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)

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. (Quote by - Tony Campolo)

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. (Quote by - Al Sharpton)

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. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein )

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. (Quote by - John Frame)

Theology is the finding of bad reasons for things we are going to believe anyway. (Quote by - G E Moore)

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all? (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)

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. (Quote by - William James)

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. (Quote by - John Burroughs)

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. (Quote by - George Macdonald)

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