Theology Quotes

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?

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

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

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.

The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

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.

I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.

The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message?

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that says that everything is separate from everything else.

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.