Theological Quotes · Page 6

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

— Auguste Comte

“But Jesus knows well that we are people of story and grit. We need to see theological ideas in messy human form…

— Zondervan Publishing

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

People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.

— Alistair Begg

You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot…

— Henri Nouwen

WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST…

— Douglas MacArthur

Probably one of the strongest movements of the Holy Spirit is in the Roman Catholic Church, so there's not a huge theological…

— Nicky Gumbel

“There is a biblical benchmark I now use. We will refer to this criterion for every hard question, big idea, topic, assessment…

— Jen Hatmaker

“Arthur W. Pink rightly warns: "The fact that a preacher has graduated with honors from some theological center is no proof that…

— Richard D. Phillips

“In the scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some- times used pejoratively to refer to a vague or ill-formulated belief. I believe…

— John Polkinghorne

In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about…

— Bart D. Ehrman

Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it…

— Ignatius of Loyola

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as…

— Charles Spurgeon

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's…

— John Polkinghorne

“It occurs to me that the situation of the church in our society, perhaps the church everywhere always, is entrusted with a…

— Walter Brueggemann

These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided…

— Pope Paul VI

You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well…

— Rob Bell

We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no…

— Thomas Jefferson

“We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

“In this book, the history of American religion is the history of human actions and human organizations, not the history of ideas…

— Roger Finke

Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to…

— Paul F. M. Zahl

If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of…

— N. T. Wright

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

— Hugh Ross

No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.

— Irving Greenberg

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may…

— Stanley Hauerwas

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith…

— Barney Frank

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of…

— David Brooks

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

— Rodger Kamenetz

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

— M. H. Abrams

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

— William Saroyan

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

— Anonymous

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

— Jim Butcher

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

— Denis Diderot

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

— Paul Kurtz

Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will . . . cure many current theological concerns.

— Jay Kesler

“One of the greatest theological challenges of our time is to move our worship beyond self-absorption.”

— Kelly M. Kapic