Erasmus - Theologians Quotes

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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

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It might be wiser for me to avoid Camarina and say nothing of theologians. They are a proud, susceptible race. They will smother me under six hundred dogmas. They will call me heretic and bring thunderbolts out of their arsenals, where they keep whole magazines of them for their enemies. Still they are Folly's servants, though they disown their mistress. They live in the third heaven, adoring their own persons and disdaining the poor crawlers upon earth. They are surrounded with a bodyguard of definitions, conclusions, corollaries, propositions explicit, and propositions implicit.... They will tell you how the world was created. They will show you the crack where Sin crept in and corrupted mankind.

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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

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