Theology Quotes

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that’s not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.