Theology Quotes · Page 22

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

— Elie Wiesel

If we believe in a theology that doesn’t contain doing the works of Jesus, we will not have a practice of Signs…

— John Wimber

“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.”

— Craig M. Mullaney

“Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny”

— Aysha Taryam

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

— Thomas Merton

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

— Anonymous

“Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.”

— Ron Brackin

“If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate…

— Criss Jami

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in…

— Philip Yancey

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied…

— John Gresham Machen

I think Pope Francis is a guy who comes from a certain place in the world, and that shapes how he processes…

— Bill O'Reilly

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for…

— David Pilbeam

“Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.”

— Alan Aldridge

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was…

— Mary Hesse

In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her…

— Henry Adams

“Like the Church the individual Christian will not be able to escape the deep ambiguities of this-wordly existence whether in its cultural,…

— Thomas F. Torrance

Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him…

— Os Guinness

“From the very beginning of the movement in the sixteenth century, Anabaptists shared a deep suspicion of the so-called Schriftgelehrten - the…

— John D. Roth

“I fully recognize there is an urgent need for constructing the _strategic we-nes-in-sameness_ and promoting the _solidarity of sameness_. The sheer realization…

— Namsoon Kang

“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without…

— Thomas Aquinas

The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of…

— Thomas Huxley

Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes…

— Robert H. Schuller

But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to…

— Albert Schweitzer

“Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger--”

— Gregory Maguire

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

— N. T. Wright

“If you meditate on the Holy Scriptures, you mind shall me on the Jesus Christ, the Saviour,”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

— Georgia Harkness

“No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.”

— Elizabeth Johnston

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

— Bill Moyers

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

— William A. Dembski

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the…

— Albert Einstein

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

— Katherine Heigl

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that…

— Alistair Begg

“If we read the Holy Scripture, we shall grow in our knowledge of Jesus Christ, the Saviour. And be filled with the…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.

— Albert Schweitzer

Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.

— Frank Tipler

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.

— Charles Spurgeon

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

— J. I. Packer