Theology Quotes · Page 6

“Who can we claim to know God, and deny him by our actions.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear”

— Charleston Parker

“It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“How do evil people find the strength to do good?”

— Keith Hollihan

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.

— H. P. Blavatsky

Mission is 'the mother of theology'.

— Martin Kahler

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

— John Piper

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

— H. P. Blavatsky

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

— H. L. Mencken

“Theology is something that is learned, lived, sung, preached, and renewed through the dynamic interaction between God and his people.”

— Michael F. Bird

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

— Edward Abbey

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

— Dada Vaswani

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

— Karl Barth

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New…

— N. T. Wright

I haven't studied theology in any systematic way. I don't think I'd find certain subjects - canon law, for instance - terribly…

— Stephen Hough

“In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the…

— Eli Of Kittim

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with…

— Anonymous

Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says…

— George Pattison

Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in…

— Rabindranath Tagore

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into…

— Anonymous

Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's…

— Karen Armstrong

There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks…

— Oliver D. Crisp

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it…

— Karl Barth

Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi…

— Saul Friedlander

“The death of the innocent, sinless Christ and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to us satisfy God’s justice and holiness. If, however,…

— David K. Bernard

“That this is really the case was made plain to me by the questions asked me, mostly by young men, about my…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced…

— Ilana Mercer

The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“How can we believe in Christ Jesus, without reading the Holy Bible?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you wholly seek God, you will find the Mighty One.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

— John Macquarrie

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

— Mikhail Bakunin

“The holiness of the gospel softens the hardness of the heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The real certificate is to know Jesus Christ.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“True preaching demonstrate the Spirit’s power.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

— Thomas Aquinas