Theology Fiction Quotes

#1. Thus, he and his gun had been sent to do the deed, in the interests of national security, which seemed to be a catchall to justify any death, anywhere, any time.

David Baldacci

#2. By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.

Jane Roberts

#3. Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell

#4. It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.

M.J. Chrisman

#5. I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

Al Sharpton

#6. A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested ... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.

M.J. Chrisman

#7. I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.

William P. Young

#8. Killer with a polo mallet.

Gabriella Poole

#9. There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Ani DiFranco

#11. War is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

Norman Vincent Peale

#13. Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Frederick Buechner

#14. I didn't share her concern. Damn it. I should have banished you the first time I saw you. I don't have time for this, not with everything else. You should be in the Underworld by now. Kiyo isn't going to kill me.

Richelle Mead

#15. Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Michael Shermer

#16. Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Marilynne Robinson

#17. Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act ... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

Dallas Willard

#18. Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

C.S. Lewis

#19. Conformity is deformity

Sharon Desruisseaux

#20. You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

Werner Herzog

#21. Witnessing the Vette's demise, the way Rick felt, there wasn't a king on Earth who he would bow to. No religious figure whose hand he'd kiss. No icon of history he'd worship. No one whose autograph he'd seek. He was becoming a legend, and he was alive to feel it happen.

Rich Hoffman

#22. A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

Thomas Moore

#23. The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness

Soroosh Shahrivar

#25. Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

Mikhail Bakunin