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Theologian Quotes

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If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
Richard Dawkins

Authors on Theologian Quotes: Paul Washer Hans Urs von Balthasar Athenagoras I of Constantinople C. S. Lewis Ronald Knox Aiden Wilson Tozer John Calvin Thomas More Benito Mussolini Fulton J. Sheen Oscar Wilde Walter Brueggemann J. I. Packer Charles M. Schulz Martin Luther Tony Campolo David Chilton Fyodor Dostoevsky Flannery O'Connor William Golding Philip Yancey H. G. Wells Charles Fort Thomas Szasz David Hume John Burroughs George Weigel Saint Francis de Sales Pope John Paul II Karen Armstrong Alister E. McGrath Richard Dawkins Desiderius Erasmus
2.
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Satan is an astute theologian.
John Calvin

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He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
C. S. Lewis

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A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God
Paul Washer

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Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
D. Elton Trueblood

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The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
Alister E. McGrath

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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
Walter Brueggemann

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The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.
Paul Washer

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Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
Saint Francis de Sales

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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.
H. G. Wells

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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
Thomas More

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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
William Golding

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The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

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The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
Adrian Rogers

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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
David Hume

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A sour religion is the devil's religion.
John Wesley

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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
Karl Barth

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The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.
Benito Mussolini

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Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.
David Chilton

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Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.
Tony Campolo

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Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.
Athenagoras I of Constantinople

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Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
Ronald Knox

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The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.
Fulton J. Sheen

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Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
J. I. Packer

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
Oscar Wilde

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Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.
Charles M. Schulz

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The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
Charles Fort

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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
Desiderius Erasmus

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If the person laughs well, they are a good person.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology.
Carl E. Olson

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We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?
Randy Alcorn

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Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.
Soren Kierkegaard

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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
John Burroughs

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I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.
Karen Armstrong

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He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.
Martin Luther

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O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
Philip Yancey

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Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
Flannery O'Connor

42.
Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.
Thomas Szasz

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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
Pope John Paul II

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Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.
George Weigel

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Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.
Allen W. Wood

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We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.
Josemaria Escriva

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A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
Thomas Merton