Theology Quotes
The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.
Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.
Leave some room in your theology for God to be bigger than you can explain
Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.
The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed.
...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.
When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission.
Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man.
God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.
To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.
Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church.
God's dialogue with us becomes truly human, since God conducts his part as man.
To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.
The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.
Very small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems.
Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire.
We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.
The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.
All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient…
And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.
That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:
After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place.
About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.
A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.
The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.
The gospel is the gospel of the cross. This means that God loves the objects of his wrath and that he, in his love, embraces men alienated from him.
Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.
No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.
The living water that never runs dry, The water of life, Lord, the saviour of the world.
The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.
If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.
If you don’t know the difference between theology and religiousstudies, then you’re a theologian.
...theology waits as it works. It waits for its lungs again to be filled. Without the renewing breath of the Spirit it cannot speak.
A God who punishes disobedience will teach us to obey and endure when it would be holy to protest and righteous to refuse to cooperate.
God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.
The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.
I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.
Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.
It's no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some human link.