Western Theology Quotes

#1. The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.

Amos Smith

#2. Western theology invariably asks the question: Are miracles possible? This of course addresses the Enlightenment problem of a closed universe. In much of Asia that is a non-question because the miraculous is assumed and fairly regularly experienced. - Hwa Yung

Craig S. Keener

#3. I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.

Matt Bomer

#4. Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Rodney Stark

#5. With 'Fellow Travelers,' I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been like if I'd been born exactly 20 years earlier.

Thomas Mallon

#6. God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.

Owen Feltham

#7. All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

Tennessee Williams

#8. Choose carefully. Success in life depends on the choices you make.

Debasish Mridha

#9. How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!

Barbara Johnson

#10. Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

Niall Ferguson

#11. Then our eyes meet and we both crack up like we're made of the same air.

Jandy Nelson

#12. For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Arthur Peacocke

#13. What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

David Mitchell

#14. We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#15. To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

Alfred Hitchcock

#16. I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

Paul Farmer

#17. I knew the things happening in my life would eventually define my future, and I guess I hoped no matter what occurred those things wouldn't ultimately define me.

S.R. Grey

#18. That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.

Angeles Arrien