All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H.P. Lovecraft in The White Ship (1919)
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.
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At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
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I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.
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I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
quote by Felix Adler
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
quote by Charles Lamb
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
quote by William Hazlitt
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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
quote by John Dos Passos
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I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
quote by Edward Irving
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Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.
quote by Wilhelm Dilthey
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Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
quote by Kenneth Burke
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Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.
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As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
quote by Catharine Beecher
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Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
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The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.
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