Theology Proper Quotes & Sayings

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air. — Sabaa Tahir

How horrible it was to be despised. To feel yourself to be despicable. — Liane Moriarty

I raised another shot. That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. — E.W. Howe

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. — Chinua Achebe

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will. — Malcolm Cowley

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something. — Gerald Durrell

when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing? — Donna Leon

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. — Groucho Marx

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person. — Pope Benedict XVI

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come. — Charles Spurgeon

So by all means, have your beliefs - but hold them lightly. Keep in mind that all beliefs are stories, whether or not they're true. — Russ Harris

I am, of course, aware that for over two hundred years scholars have laboured to keep history and theology, or history and faith, at arm's length from one another. There is a good intention behind this move: each of these disciplines has its own proper shape and logic, and cannot simply be turned into a branch of the other. — N. T. Wright

The crags of the mountain were ruthless in the moon; cold, deadly and shining. Distance had no meaning. The tangled glittering of the forest roof rolled away, but its furthermost reaches were brought suddenly nearer in a bound by the terrifying effect of proximity in the mountain that they swarmed. The mountain was neither far away nor was it close at hand. It arose starkly, enormously, across the lens of the eye. The hollow itself was a cup of light. Every blade of the grass was of consequence, and the few scattered stones held an authority that made their solid, separate marks upon the brain - each one with its own unduplicated shape: each rising brightly from the ink of its own spilling. — Mervyn Peake

I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell'arte play. I was given some small chances. — Lena Dunham

Books that distribute things ... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. — Marsilio Ficino

There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication. — Christopher Hitchens

Good theology helps us keep music in its proper place. We learn that music isn't an end in itself but rather a means of expressing the worship already present in our hearts through the new life we've received in Jesus Christ. — Bob Kauflin

For theology to remain formally one as a science, all the natural knowledge it contains must be directed and subordinated to the point of view proper to the theologian, which is that of revelation. Thus incorporated into the theological order, human learning becomes a part of the sacred doctrine which is founded on faith. — Etienne Gilson

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality. — Dinesh D'Souza