Theology Quotes · Page 17

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

— Andrew Linzey

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

— Anonymous

“Theology ought to escape from their textbooks and invade absolutely every living activity”

— Michael S. Lawson

Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know…

— Stephen Colbert

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

— Mary Daly

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

— John Piper

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

— Tommy Douglas

“If you walk in the Spirit, know your Bible, and spend sufficient time alone with God, your theology will take care of…

— R.T. Kendall

“If we, who are finite, contingent, created beings, have got God completely figured out, it makes it seem likely that we invented…

— Holly Ordway

“The study of theology is simply the study of the character of God, whose crowning virtue is love. Sound theology actually teaches…

— R.C. Sproul

“Above all things have charity, which is the bond of perfection and may the peace of Christ exult in your hearts in…

— Thomas Merton

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human…

— Jon Meacham

“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“In AA we don’t come to God through theology but through experience, mostly of the humbling and humiliating variety, often reluctantly, and…

— Ray A

“now the question we must ask is...what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new…

— Namsoon Kang

“How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological…

— C.S. Lewis

Theres a verse thats meant a lot to me ever since I was in my early 20s. 2 Timothy 2:8, Paul told…

— Max Lucado

In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury…

— Philip Yancey

“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting…

— John Stott

I like to imagine, as a thought experiment, the day, perhaps not too far off, when a Republican president nominates a Supreme…

— Rick Perlstein

“There appears to be a fifth way, that of eminence. According to this I argue that it is incompatible with the idea…

— John Duns Scotus

“We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a…

— Kamand Kojouri

A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and…

— John K. Brown

Cultural predilections are not to be confused with theological absolutes. The former are preferences - the latter are immutable.

— Randy Vader

“If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.”

— Eberhard Jüngel

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

— Anonymous

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

— Thomas Paine

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

— Taslima Nasrin

I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.

— Krista Tippett

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

— Hans Kung

“To reject theology is to reject the knowledge of God. This is not an option for the Christian.”

— R.C. Sproul

“theology is not the study of ideas about God; it is the study of the living God.”

— Michael F. Bird

“Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.”

— Michael F. Bird

“If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but…

— R.C. Sproul

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

— Martin Luther

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

— Thomas Jefferson

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

— C. S. Lewis