Theology Quotations

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.

I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.

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

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

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

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and imposes moral codes and responsibilities upon them, thereby generating serious intellectual questions such as: 'Why does God allow us to sin?' 'Does the Sixth Commandment prohibit war?'

When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.

I don't know any more about theology than jackrabbit does about ping pong, but I'm on my way to glory.

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

My plan is to read English literature, philosophy and theology in Galway, Ireland, where my late mother came from and where I'm also a citizen.

I went to all four Theology On Taps, and the whole thing is more relaxed. It is not as stuffy as meeting in a church. I really enjoyed it, and it was great.

I think a real marker is if a leader has aberrant theology and is not held accountable,

Over the last half-century, anti-Semitism has been the essential theology of the Arab world. The Arabs have wasted trillions in oil royalties on weapons of war and propaganda . . . In their flight from reason, they have failed to modernize or civilize their societies, to introduce democracy, or to consolidate the rule of law.

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.

Theology is a subject without an object

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

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

Bishop Smith is trying to force his theology on to these six churches.

When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.

See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned.

I'm not trying to provide any information that has to do with theology here. All we've thought is about the natural process. What theologians or anybody else does with that it's their business so to speak.

Instead of sitting in a classroom here on this very elite campus and talking about liberation and anti-colonial and anti-empire theology and black theology and feminist theology, let's give students the opportunity to be in a place where those issues are the daily life of the people. So now they're not just studying about these people. They're studying with them.

It's revolutionizing society in every way. It's leading us to the intersection of science, philosophy, theology and ethics.

It's important scientists take a stand on this because intelligent design is nothing more than creationism dressed up in a tuxedo. It's the same mishmash of theology and science.

Worm theology is too high for me.

This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

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.

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

It's theology of the hammer. We feel that if you can demonstrate God's love by swinging a hammer, we'd love to have you.

a theology of holy terror and the means to live the plotters' life.

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.

However, I do not believe it is right when a minister corrects his theology - or his view on a point of Scripture - and the critics continue to bring up that same subject.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say: Sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say.

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.

No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

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

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics,

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.

Our theology must become biography.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.

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.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

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

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

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

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

I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

Theology never changes. A man's heart is the same. The Gospel is the same. There have been no additions to the Gospel that was preached in the first century, and there is no difference in the reading of the events of the first century; morally, they're still the same. The same old sins, the same old problems, basically, that they faced in Egypt we face today in America.

The cross alone is our theology.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.