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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows…then we must starve eternally.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Preface
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Dualism is a truncated metaphysic.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
Martin Luther1483–1546Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517), Thesis 40
- Virtue
Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.
Martin Luther1483–1546Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517), Thesis 17
- God
However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between God and us.
Maimonides1138–1204Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.9
- God
When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)In context
- Religion
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib’d
In one self place; but where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603), Act II, scene i, line 118In context
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Baltimore Evening Sun (4 April 1927)
- Clever Jabs
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley1890–1957“Safe and Sane” in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92
Brahman and Śakti are identical. If you accept the one, you must accept the other.
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 134
- God