Theology Quotes

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

The cross alone is our theology.

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Our theology must become biography.

James 2:19- 'You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that- and shudder.' God doesn't just want us to have good theology; He wants us to know and love Him.

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

I don't judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.