Theology Quotes · Page 15

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

— Anonymous

“If we longer rely on God, it means we have rejected the rule of a righteous Ruler.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“To reject theology is to reject the knowledge of God. This is not an option for the Christian.”

— R.C. Sproul

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

— Hans Kung

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

— Krista Tippett

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

— Thomas Paine

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

— Taslima Nasrin

“If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.”

— Eberhard Jüngel

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.…

— Martin Luther

I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a…

— Keith Getty

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but…

— Richard Dawkins

It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell…

— Simon Conway Morris

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in…

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes

“You are not blamed for your unwilling ignorance, but because you fail to ask about what you do not know… For no…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a…

— Namsoon Kang

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God,…

— Hilda Phoebe Hudson

“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I…

— C.S. Lewis

Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter…

— Cecil B. DeMille

“When it comes to our embedded beliefs, our relative intolerance to ambiguous and contrary information leads us in many instances to ignore…

— Brian Goedken

“Sonnet of Holy Water A new day starts with a new you, And I ain't talkin' about born again nonsense. A bigot…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Desperation is a great giver of clarity: Bartimaeus needed no time to decide what to do next. “Jesus! Son of David!” he…

— Sherri Gragg

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of…

— Mark Twain

Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence…

— Lucretia Mott

“In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of…

— Zeena Schreck

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

— Anonymous

“Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and…

— John K. Brown

Cultural predilections are not to be confused with theological absolutes. The former are preferences - the latter are immutable.

— Randy Vader

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

— John Piper

“If you walk in the Spirit, know your Bible, and spend sufficient time alone with God, your theology will take care of…

— R.T. Kendall

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

— Tommy Douglas

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

— C. S. Lewis

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

— Martin Luther

“If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but…

— R.C. Sproul

“Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.”

— Michael F. Bird

“theology is not the study of ideas about God; it is the study of the living God.”

— Michael F. Bird

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

— Dorothee Solle

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

— Matt Chandler

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

— Mark Twain