#theologian

The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Whenever the guide spat between his shoes, the horse shook his head in disapproval. ↗

— Wolfgang Koeppen

#moral #spitting #theologian #death

The mind becomes like that on which it feeds. ↗

— Elton Trueblood

#professor-emeritus #theologian #religion

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#mysteries #philosophers #same #searched #theologians

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#easily #god #point #say #theologians

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bones #dead #habit #living #old

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#allows #always #appear #catholic #catholic faith

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. ↗

— Barney Frank

#any #binds #called #concept #contrary

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. ↗

— James Lovelock

#god #i #know #religion #requires

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. ↗

— Johann Most

#assumes #conclusions #forth #god #idea