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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Religion
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God.
Paul Tillich1886–1965Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality (1955), p. 80
- God
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
Man is infinitely concerned about the infinity to which he belongs, from which he is separated, and for which he is longing.
Paul Tillich1886–1965Systematic Theology (1951–63)