Theologian Quotes
Theologian Quote of the day
I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.
The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.
The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.
There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
