Theologian Quotes

A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God

— Paul Washer

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

— John Wesley

Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read.

— Greg Boyle

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

— R. C. Sproul

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

— Adrian Rogers

Satan is an astute theologian.

— John Calvin

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.

— Jaroslav Pelikan

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

— Alister E. McGrath

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

— John Henry Newman

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

— Constance Baker Motley

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

— Karl Barth

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

— Richard Baxter

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

— Timothy Keller

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

— Hans Kung

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

— Johann Baptist Metz

God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them.…

— Dorothee Solle

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

— George Santayana

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

— Dervla Murphy

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

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

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

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

— Rumi

Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas…scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different…

— Frank J. Tipler

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like…

— John Updike

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He…

— Robert Jastrow

When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much,…

— John Haynes Holmes

A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with…

— Martin Luther

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did…

— Martin Luther

The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude…

— Robert Bellarmine

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove…

— Carl Sagan

Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of…

— Theodore Hesburgh

But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention,…

— Michel Foucault

The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have…

— Bertrand Russell

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be…

— Marilynne Robinson

I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating…

— Ray Bradbury

Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is…

— Richard Dawkins

I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now…

— Joe Bastardi

“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions…

— Criss Jami