Theologian Quotes · Page 6

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

— Benito Mussolini

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

— Martin Luther

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

— Karl Barth

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

— John Burroughs

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

— R. C. Sproul

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

— Timothy Keller

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

— Josemaria Escriva

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

— John Calvin

“I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him…

— C.S. Lewis

Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God…

— Garrison Keillor

Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into…

— Rumi

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our…

— Michael Dowd

Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite…

— Dervla Murphy

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers…

— George Santayana

“Tema 'Boga' ne dispenzira teologa od njegove biografije. To ga razlikuje od stručnjaka koji se bavi znanošću o religiji.”

— Johann Baptist Metz

With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the…

— Carl Jung

Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted…

— Peter Leithart

All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their…

— Dorothee Solle

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but…

— Martin Niemoller

Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not…

— Helmut Thielicke

I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement.…

— Leslie Weatherhead

For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A…

— Carl Sagan

I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with…

— Philip Yancey

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an…

— Anatole France

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

— Thomas More

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

— C. S. Lewis

The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

— Fulton J. Sheen

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

— John Wesley

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

— Anonymous

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

— Walter Rauschenbusch

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

— David Chilton

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

— Thomas Aquinas

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

— Kevin DeYoung

Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology.

— Carl E. Olson

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer…

— Rubem Alves

No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…

— Robert Graves

Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees…

— Lucy Larcom