Theology Quotes

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

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

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

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

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

I haven't even read everything I wrote.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.