Theology Quotes

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...

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...

I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by t...

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and sufferi...

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theol...

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...

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...

I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by t...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A...

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and sufferi...

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theol...

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...

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...

I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by t...

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and sufferi...

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theol...

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...

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. L...

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex ...

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himse...

I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by t...

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and...

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. A...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and sufferi...

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theol...

Inthe scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some-times used pejoratively to refer to ...

The doctrine of creation of the kind that the Abrahamic faiths profess is such that it encourages th...

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear ...

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to...

It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I cou...