Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.

Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

When I was about 15 years old, I began to embark on an MC career but also to study philosophy with an emphasis on theology.

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

I'm very interested in Darwinism and how that affects us on a day-to-day level. But I also have a deep interest in theology and the spiritual.

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

I've done a lot of research on science and theology to try and get a better understanding of what happens to the human soul or what potential it has.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

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.

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.

Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.

Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.

Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.

Scientists don't read theology; they don't read philosophy. It doesn't make any difference to what they're doing - for better or worse, it may not be a value judgment, but it's true.

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