#theologian

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#certainty #confuse #different #different things #entirely

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#interesting #making #need #newspaperman #responsibility

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. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #black #cat #cellar #dark

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

#cells #compose #god #i #i am

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#easy #far #freedom #going #how

The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Whenever the guide spat between his shoes, the horse shook his head in disapproval. ↗

— Wolfgang Koeppen

#moral #spitting #theologian #death

The mind becomes like that on which it feeds. ↗

— Elton Trueblood

#professor-emeritus #theologian #religion

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. ↗

— Barney Frank

#any #binds #called #concept #contrary

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now. ↗

— Susan Powter

#case #everything #gender #god #me