Theological Quotes

• theological-political divide, which could open up even further down the boundary between so-called Christian heritage states and those of Islamic heritage.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Political
  • Christian

• Each is overwhelmingly Muslim and each, in their separate ways, is crucial to whether the world can be bound together, or fractured along deep political and theological divides.

  

  Jack Straw
  • World
  • Together
  • Political

• ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Support
  • ISIS
  • Ideological

• Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Existence
  • Accepting
  • Scientist

• All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Problems

• Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom.

  

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick
  • Age
  • Opinion
  • Atheism

• You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Heaven

• The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

  

  George Sarton
  • Kind
  • Foundation
  • Hatred

• Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

  

  Carl R. Trueman
  • Taken
  • Term
  • Sophisticated

• A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

  

  George Weigel
  • Consequences
  • Bomb
  • Theological

• People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Garden

• Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are so tiny as to require a 'miracle' for spontaneous generation tantamount to a theological argument.

  

  Chandra Wickramasinghe
  • Evolution
  • Argument
  • Spontaneous

• Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Soul
  • Criticism
  • Atheism