Theological Quotes

189 Theological quotes by 146 unique authors

You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it.… — Nancy Farmer
You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated… — Rob Bell
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have… — Karl Barth
The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the… — Gardiner Spring
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded… — Mark Twain
I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ("I feel full of worship" or "The atmosphere is so worshipful"). Actually, it is theological.… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the… — Sam Storms
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theological… — Benedict Cumberbatch
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded… — Nikola Tesla
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the… — Jonathan Kozol
I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a… — Robert H. Schuller
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. — Bill McKibben
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something… — Stanley Hauerwas
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is… — Stanley Hauerwas
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions… — David Novak
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance. — David Novak
In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually… — David Novak
I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. — David Novak
It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter… — David Novak
Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process. — David Novak
The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation,… — David Novak
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many… — David Novak
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

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