“There is in every department of investigation great liability to error. Almost all false theories in science and false doctrines in theology are due in a great degree to mistakes as to matters of fact.”
― Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes
― Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes
“This collection of facts must not only be carefully conducted, but also comprehensive, and if possible, exhaustive. An imperfect induction of facts led men for ages to believe that the sun moved round the earth, and that the earth was an extended plain.”
― Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes
― Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes
“It is conceded that nothing contrary to reason can be true. But it is no less important to remember that nothing contrary to our moral nature can be true.”
― Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes
― Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes
“That may be, for there is a reason for everything, and nothing happens without a cause, which God sometimes lets students find out; so, Doctor, find it out if you can.”
― Jules Verne: The Collection
― Jules Verne: The Collection
“If the facts of Scripture are what Augustinians believe them to be, then the Augustinian system is the only possible system of theology. If those facts be what Romanists or Remonstrants take them to be, then their system is the only true one. It is important that the theologian should know his place. He is not master of the situation. He can no more construct a system of theology to suit his fancy, than the astronomer can adjust the mechanism of the heavens according to his own good pleasure.”
― Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes
― Systematic Theology: The Complete Three Volumes
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