Theological Quotes · Page 4

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce)…

— Lewis Carroll

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear. God is a human being without…

— John Shelby Spong

The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological…

— J. C. Ryle

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered…

— Anonymous

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a…

— Eliza Farnham

Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord…

— Sam Storms

In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi…

— Victor Frederick Weisskopf

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

— Dan Fogelberg

On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding…

— Philip Yancey

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the…

— Jon Meacham

Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses,…

— M. M. Mangasarian

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

— Hugh Ross

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving…

— Adrian Rogers

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

— Jan Hus

For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their…

— Emil Fackenheim

A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries…

— David Novak

If you are going to help people discover God's original will for them, we've got to know what that will is, and…

— Myles Munroe

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped…

— Jack Dee

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

— William Saroyan