Theology Quotes · Page 18

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

— Dwight L. Moody

“Theology that does not touch the heart—that does not resonate with your inner spirit so that it changes you—has failed at its…

— Ron Rhodes

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

— James Luther Adams

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology.

— Carl E. Olson

“A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.”

— Michael Joseph Brown

People Criticize Others For Faults That They Have Themselves. Or Make Accusations That Are Equally Applicable To Themselves:

— Pacifiersucker

“Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.”

— Gerhard Ebeling

I began to read for myself and realised that here was somebody who could teach me profound biblical theology, get inside my…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a…

— Keith Getty

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.…

— Martin Luther

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but…

— Richard Dawkins

It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell…

— Simon Conway Morris

“It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen…

— M. J. Chrisman

“The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which…

— Thomas Watson

In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither…

— Andrew Linzey

“The study of theology is not merely a theoretical exercise of the intellect. It is a study of the living God, and…

— Wayne Grudem

Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Every faith uses some kind of tool to understand itself better. Faith seeks understanding. The Western tradition has used philosophy to understand…

— Francis George

“We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Swamp Thing, in Hell: "Demon...How...could God...allow such a place? Etrigan: Think you God built this place, wishing man ill and not lusts…

— Alan Moore

“In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around…

— Tim Keel

John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend…

— Marilynne Robinson

“The resurrection of the body - what do we really mean by this? ...Did not the mystics and sages of all times…

— Alexander Schmemann

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

— Jerry A. Coyne

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus…

— Walter Martin

“If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it.”

— D.A. Simpson

The theology you live out is much more important to your daily life than the theology you claim to believe.

— Tim Lane and Paul Tripp

“Clearly divine grace and natural knowledge never diminish liberty, but rather increase and strengthen it.”

— René Descartes

I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“If we desire to be close to Spirit of God, we desire to dwell in clean soul with a clean body.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.

— J. I. Packer

“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies…

— C.S. Lewis

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

— Bill Johnson

“Spirituality is inseparable from theology. Indeed, it could be defined as the living out of theology.”

— Donald G. Bloesch

“The holiness of the gospel is its ability to pierced though the heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

— Melissa Pritchard

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“What the Western World uses as a basis for “natural” and “unnatural” is not biology, but rather Christian theology.”

— FastReads

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

— R. C. Sproul