I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it...

In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order...

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. ‘God had made us master organizers of...

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.

The evangelist is the world’s hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’?

Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world...

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

That which isn’t love, isn’t god.

He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.

There are a lot of Christian groups or writers who defend basic theology in the abstract. I’m interested in the ecosystem of understanding we have to live in.

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.

We’ve got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We’d be lost indeed if we didn’t do that.

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to tell us what to do. Which religion, anyway? The one in which we...

No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he builds on knowledge already achieved and engages in a movement of advance. But...

And those who will carefully study the so-called ‘Mosaic code’ contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that, though Jahveh’s prohibitions of certain forms of immorality are strict and sweeping, his...

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will...

Fundamentalism’s strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it....

…theology waits as it works. It waits for its lungs again to be filled. Without the renewing breath of the Spirit it cannot speak.

As well as being essential to theological study, philosophy is an indispensable tool for communicating theology, for evangelization and catechesis. A faith based on how warm and comfortable you feel and how “affirmed” you are...

It is a mistake for anyone who is just in this stage to appear before a church as a teacher. He has outgrown the naivete with which in young people’s work he might by all...

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and...

About the time I told God that He didn’t exist, I was desperate for an identity.

…we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy...

Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God’s image. Either/or:...

Forget everything you ordinarily associate with religious study. Strip away all the reverence and the awe and the art and the philosophy of it. Treat the subject coldly. Imagine yourself to be a theologist, but...

Theological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building solidarities. Theological discourses that theologians produce, disseminate, and teach in academia are not...

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

After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place.

For the humanists, whatever authority Scripture might possess derived from the original texts in their original languages, rather than from the Vulgate, which was increasingly recognized as unreliable and inaccurate. In that the catholic church...

Being that ‘reason is not antithetical to faith’ (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that ‘theology matters’ (Wimber), then ’empowered evangelicalism’ (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship.”~R. Alan Woods...

We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I truly believe that such postures and perspectives put us in danger of conceptual idolatry, worshiping our ideas...

Those who hold to the Christian faith see law as an ultimate order of the universe. It is the invariable factor in a variable world, the unchanging order in a changing universe. Law for the...

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)… Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would...

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many...

Just as God’s love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of...

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.