Theological Quotes

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will . . . cure many current theological concerns.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Atheism is too theological.

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen's peace - that makes them a police matter.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions.

Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a notion which I think is crude beyond all belief.

If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was.

If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

Believe in God, the Creator of all possibilities.

The highest knowledge, knowledge of the Holy Scriptures