Theologian Quotes · Page 6

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

— David Chilton

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

— Walter Rauschenbusch

Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.

— Richard J. Foster

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

— Kevin Vanhoozer

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

— Al-Ghazali

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

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some…

— Godfried Danneels

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so…

— John Gresham Machen

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or…

— Henry Adams

We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured…

— Philip Yancey

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

— Max Planck

The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that…

— Louis de Montfort

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some…

— Eric Alterman

In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me…

— Eugen Drewermann

If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe…

— Anonymous

Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Spirituality is not a function of occupation or calling. A scientist may be more spiritual than a theologian; a teacher may be…

— Dallin H. Oaks

If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation…

— John Adams

“God once spoke through the mouth of an ass. I will tell you straight what I think. I am a Christian theologian…

— Martin Luther

In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in…

— Charles Hodge

I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the…

— Vigen Guroian

Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with…

— Karl Rahner

"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a…

— Michio Kaku

If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— C. S. Lewis

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

— Krister Stendahl

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.

— Steven J Lawson

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

— Thomas A. Edison

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

— Brennan Manning

If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

— Anonymous

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

— Oscar Wilde

We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

— Gordon Clark

Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.

— Thomas Szasz

“An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.”

— Peter Boghossian