Theology Quotes

The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propo...

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

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

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

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

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

Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and ...

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that pe...

Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again...

Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who wou...

Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the a...

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or r...

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to refl...

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

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualis...

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But w...

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to st...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other c...

Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the ri...

It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activi...

What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and...

The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to...

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and re...

The formula "the Church is the Body of Christ" thus states that the Eucharist, in which the Lord giv...

Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation...

Thus there is need of deeper reflection. Before entering into an examination of individual texts, we...

God's dialogue with us becomes truly human, since God conducts his part as man.

The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to...

After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much mo...

Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallo...

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great p...

Problems arise when (especially) theologians use such metaphorical language without realizing that t...

The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free...

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence an...

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer...

And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question o...

most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immers...

It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Eve...

It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself w...

I have considered the impudent accusations of Mr Dawkins with exasperation at his lack of serious sc...

There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can de...

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is fou...

I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the quest...

We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but...

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and ex...

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sound...

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Didn't Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?""The what?""The single congruent aspe...

Why shouldn't a mystical theology be possible? 'I want to touch God or become God,' I declared in my...

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had ...

So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not b...

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is t...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can...

Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if ...

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by pr...

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

I might be tempted to make to Christendom a proposal different from that of the Bible society. Let u...

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

Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out...

The emotion of love is an affective emotion, directly reacting to goodness, rather than an aggressiv...

What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreem...

*There is only one God*. Whatever exists is *ipso facto* individual; to be one it needs no extra pro...

God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no ...

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and moral...

All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which o...

In other words, I have tried to learn in my writing a monastic lesson I could probably not have lear...

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstru...

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a...

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Demo...

Theology is not superior to the Gospel. It exists to aid the preaching of salvation. Its business is...

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us...

Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...

I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I...

It's no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for som...

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians...

Swamp Thing, in Hell: "Demon...How...could God...allow such a place?Etrigan: Think you God built thi...

Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit...

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, drea...

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that...

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intel...

Theologians, and religionists in general, start with a fantasy premise and then proceed to apply rig...

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

The giver is more than the gift; God is more than the blessing. And our being kept waiting on Him is...

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will tr...

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

Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my lat...

Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility...

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians...

It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the W...

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matt...

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...