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Famous quotes by Theologians

TheologiansQuotations from theologians offer reflections on faith, doubt, ethics, community, and the search for meaning. Drawn from diverse traditions and eras, they consider the nature of God, human responsibility, sacred texts, and the complexities of lived belief. Readers of any background can find thoughtful perspectives that invite contemplation without presuming agreement. Engage with voices that challenge, comfort, and question, revealing how theology converses with philosophy, culture, and everyday life.
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
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"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
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"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian
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"Not to decide is to decide"
Harvey Cox, Theologian
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"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul"
John Calvin, Theologian
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"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
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"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian
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"In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
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"Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
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"Forgiveness is the final form of love"
Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian
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"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
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"Beware of the person of one book"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
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"Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise"
Karl Rahner, Theologian
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"Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best"
John Tillotson, Theologian
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"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials"
Ronald Knox, Theologian
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"You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed"
Samuel Rutherford, Theologian
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"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes"
Clement of Alexandra, Theologian
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"The things that we love tell us what we are"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
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"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
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"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols"
John Calvin, Theologian
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"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent"
John Calvin, Theologian
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"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it"
Ernest Holmes, Theologian
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"Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it"
Adam Clarke, Theologian
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"The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it"
Ferdinand Christian Baur, Theologian
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"My life is my argument"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
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"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
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"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
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"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith"
Abraham Kuyper, Theologian
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"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
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