Theology Quotes

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...

He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there i...

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cann...

The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support ...

Do I need to wriggle my breasts at you again?""No, please. I don't know if I'd be able to stand the ...

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-ha...

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no ...

[God] sees before Him in fact a self-centred, greedy, grumbling, rebellious human animal. But He say...

For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotion...

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and...

Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, tha...

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pi...

In other words, The­ol­ogy is prac­ti­cal: espe­cially now. In the old days, when there was less edu...

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about whic...

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of ...

Ye can know nothing of the end of all things, or nothing expressible in those terms. It may be, as t...

Time is the very lens through which ye see—small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a te...

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease til...

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness ...

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may for...

The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Chris...

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all th...

We are bidden to 'put on Christ', to become like God. That is, whether we like it or not, God intend...

It is not simply that God has arbitrarily made us such that He is our only good. Rather God is the o...

His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically im...

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met ...

One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freed...

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were uneducated. But, as it is...

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelair...

No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member...

There is a thought among some brands of theology that souls are waiting up in heaven to be born. Now...

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone...

Our sin is our resistance to going along with God's initiative in making suffering reparative. We ar...

How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. Wha...

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the tr...

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself...

We were fortunate his brief psychic vision distracted him from what his fingertips could have told h...

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't ...

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Gideon conquers, the church conquers, we conquer, because faith conquers. But the victory belongs no...

Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that ...

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, p...

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make thin...

That this is really the case was made plain to me by the questions asked me, mostly by young men, ab...

If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any ...

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, a...

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are relat...

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of r...

Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work.

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-sp...

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of ...

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie aga...

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in th...

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made ...

Death was far more certain than God.

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is...

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to p...

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

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

What does hanging on a cross for twenty-four hours mean to a man who has no children,' I said, 'espe...

For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute o...

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of know...

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in...

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite rea...

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity...

It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as lit...

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps...

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy whic...

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can ...

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necess...

If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible t...

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time ex...

We live in a day of abounding vagueness and indistinctness on doctrinal subjects in religion. Now, i...

Christ is to the souls of men what the sun is to the world. He is the center and source of all spiri...

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the...

For when man is faced with a curse he answers, "I'll take care of my problems." And he puts everythi...

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

The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pill...

How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?”Answer: “Because I am baptiz...

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rej...

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

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

But the Lord often leaves his servants, not only to be annoyed by the violence of the wicked, but to...

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

We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to ...

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't...

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees y...