Theological Quotes

“Predestination: You Can; You Should; But You Won't”

— monk of YHVH

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

— Wilfred Owen

Atheism is too theological.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

— Gabriel Fackre

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

— Frank Moore Cross

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

— Kelly M. Kapic

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

— Rodger Kamenetz

“E. A. Burtt argued that the foundations of science were often theological.”

— Gary B. Ferngren

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

— Cole Younger

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

— Rick Perlstein

“Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.”

— Namsoon Kang

The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.

— Walter Rauschenbusch

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Barney Frank

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

— Tullian Tchividjian

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

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

— Anonymous

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

There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their…

— Dan Savage

“Much of the theology of the Bible is what we could call “task theology.” It is theological truth brought to bear on…

— Mark L. Strauss

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being…

— William James

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Anonymous

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not…

— Roland Allen

Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save…

— Pope Francis

So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken…

— Francis J. Beckwith

Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a…

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant…

— John Templeton

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some…

— Anonymous

There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say…

— Pope Francis

We hear a lot about theological justifications for the conflicts, but very little about the scientific evidence, which in no way supports…

— Lawrence Wright

I definitely enjoy liturgical work and choral work from the 15th century and 16th century, but I play in churches with a…

— Tim Hecker

“As well as being essential to theological study, philosophy is an indispensable tool for communicating theology, for evangelization and catechesis. A faith…

— George Cardinal Pell

There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by…

— Criss Jami

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

— Ann Voskamp

“. . . be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires.”

— William E. Hordern

“Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Theological meaning is thus written into the detail of John’s meticulous literary composition.”

— Richard Bauckham

I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.

— Marilynne Robinson