Theologians Quotes

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. - Robert Vaughn

The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian [read: journalist] He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. - Edward Gibbon

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

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

The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled serpents. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy. - Godfried Danneels

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. - John Polkinghorne