Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"Theology is unnecessary."
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Theology
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Martin Luther
Theologian
"The cross alone is our theology."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"To downgrade the human mind is bad theology."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology."
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"Worm theology is too high for me."
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"If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones."
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"The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking."
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"Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies."
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"Theology is Classified Superstition."
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"Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word."
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"Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners."
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"Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God."
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"In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong."
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"Prayer turns theology into experience."
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"I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals."
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"Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity."
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"Theology is to religion what poisons are to food."
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"Theology is only thought applied to religion."
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"Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself."
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"The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history."
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"The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents."
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"The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being."
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"Men are better than this theology."
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"Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains."
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