Avery Dulles Quotes

In today's schools, 'religious studies' has almost entirely replaced theology.

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• My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

  

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• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  

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• Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

  

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• It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

  

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• Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

  

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• Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

  

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• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

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• There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

  

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• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

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• I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

  

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• In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

  

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• There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  

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• Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.

  

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• No pretext, arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

  

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• Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

  

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• I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

  

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• Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

  

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• I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

  

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• In today's schools, 'religious studies' has almost entirely replaced theology.

  

  Avery Dulles
  • Religious
  • Theology
  • Studies