Theology

(162 votes)   Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(142 votes)   Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(136 votes)   Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(118 votes)   Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(113 votes)   Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(110 votes)   To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Marquis De Sade
1740-1814, French Author

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(109 votes)   Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

George MacDonald
1824-1905, Scottish Novelist

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(109 votes)   Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll
1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer

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(98 votes)   There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(96 votes)   As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

Henry Benjamin Whipple

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