Theology Quotes

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.

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

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

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.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Mission is 'the mother of theology'.

Theology is a subject without an object

Mormonism is not simply a commitment to a theology or a church practice, but a social-cultural order.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology.

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will . . . cure many current theological concerns.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

Death was far more certain than God.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

This is not mathematics; this is theology.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.