#theologians

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. ↗

— Lactantius

#concerning #crete #enumerated #gods #having

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

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

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians. ↗

— Athenagoras I

#only #theologians #theology

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#believe #doctors #innocent #military #nothing

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#because #christian #clear #confront #difficult

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#interesting #making #need #newspaperman #responsibility

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #black #cat #cellar #dark

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

#cells #compose #god #i #i am

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beginning #creation #doctrine #pay #science