Best Theology Sayings
485 Theology quotes by 310 unique authors
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Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine. It is a person, and his name is Jesus.…
— Joseph Prince
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When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
— Mark Twain
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You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that…
— Anthony de Mello
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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
— Martin Luther
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If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous…
— Deborah Lipstadt
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Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination.…
— Albert Einstein
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Biblical Theology...is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity...Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than…
— Geerhardus Vos
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It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do…
— John Dominic Crossan
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Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge…
— Darrel Ray
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Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science…
— Starhawk
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When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.
— Albert Mohler
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Prayer and Theology are inseparable. True Theology is the adoration offered by the intellect. The intellect clarifies the moment of prayer, but only prayer can…
— Olivier Clement
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The Resurrection of Jesus is...a symbol of hope...I don't see how you can show love...without being in solidarity with the victims of this world. And…
— Jon Sobrino
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
— Edward Abbey
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Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.
— Edward Abbey
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If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin had no religion…
— Theodore Parker
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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already…
— Walt Whitman
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Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it
— John Gresham Machen
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We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen…
— Sinclair Lewis
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All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
— J I Packer
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Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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