#theo

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. ↗

— William James

#belief #concerning #doubt #means #possible

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. ↗

— William James

#endured #fashioned #habitually #hell #hereafter

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#common people #democracy #deserve #get #good

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#children #extent #fellow #his #must

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#against #experience #theory #will

I don't like writing essays or theory. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#i #like #theory #writing

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. ↗

— Edward Irving

#fearful #i #ignorance #most #omen

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 who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#doctrine #theology #wisdom #experience

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#go #him #i #me #minister