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Faith is a universal human phenomenon. All people live by some faith.

— Roger Haight

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Theology seeks to explain the meaning of Christian assertions in a language comprehensible to any given age.

One cannot reason without a conceptual content that is historically mediated.

There are many aspects of the ancient laws of Israel that simply do not mediate an experience of divine will for people today.

As an appeal to hope the symbol of the kingdom of God is utopic.

Theology today may be understood as a discipline which seeks to understand and determine the underlying truth of all reality.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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