Theology Quotes

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".

I by no means say … God is nothing, the Trinity is nothing, the Word of God is nothing, … . I only show that they are not that which the illusions of theology make them[.]

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.

...celebrating the Eucharist as a remembrance of Christ means practicing God's justice towards neighbors, strangers, and enemies alike.

And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.

In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down.

Our creator is one. However you name him. Whatever you call him. He is the only one having 99 names...

Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic".

do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing

If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it.

But here we see the peace of God is not the absence of negative thoughts, it is the presence of God himself.

Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.

Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.

How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!

Conformity is deformity

At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity.

If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace.

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila

...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God

I believe that theology is facing the abyss.I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

What the heart loves, the will chooses and the mind justifies.

Since the Word became flesh (John 1.14), heaven and earth remain indissolubly joined.

The Holy Spirit is our great Teacher.

When the Lord's request comes, will remove all other demands.

The more I learn, the less I know.

God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Bad theology kills

Theology: (15) Somebody made everything for some reason.

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

But if we decide contextually specific questions of synonymy on the basis of the total semantic range of each word, any synonymy in any context is virtually impossible.

The devil does not care about the theology that a man. Knows as long as he can keep the man away from Christ

Why shouldn't a mystical theology be possible? 'I want to touch God or become God, ' I declared in my journal. All through that year I abandoned myself intermittently to these deliriums.

​Man created God due to his selfish desires.

You will see by this that no man should be judged by another here in this life, for the good or evil he has done. Deeds may be properly judged, whether they are good or bad, but not men.

The Sabbath day of rest establishes the reality that God's people live by God's grace and not by their own labors.

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?

Who better to confess to than a dying woman?

Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love, ' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.

The best of a human being is still a human being.