Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
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I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno elite that lives in a different world.
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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.
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
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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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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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
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God is living in the circle of eternity, and we the [straight] line cut from the world must be hammered, bent and broken, to be re-forged into His circle.
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Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
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When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
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Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].
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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful
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The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.
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The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion
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Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings of the world
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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?
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Worm theology is too high for me
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What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth
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Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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