#theo

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#hubris #identity

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#church

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#metaphysics #nonsense #questioning-mind #questions #theology

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#animal-rights #animals #theodor-w-adorno #cruelty

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#god #theology #anarchy

Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine’s memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet. ↗

— James Morcan

#amazon-com #barack-obama #bilderberg #bill-clinton #clinton

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total. ↗

— Alistair Begg

#god #help #prayer #theology #faith

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#theology

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. ↗

— Karl Barth

#study #theology

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology. ↗