Best Theology Quotes

#1. The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Jeremy Taylor

#2. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Karl Barth

#3. As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

Steve Chalke

#4. To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.

Alister E. McGrath

#5. The best theology will not remove mystery from your life, so rest is found in trusting the One who rules, is all, and knows no mystery.

Paul David Tripp

#6. The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another.

Charles M. Schulz

#7. I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

John Piper

#8. For the next ten minutes we talked theology in the green corn while early summer clouds - the best clouds, the ones that float like schooners - sailed slowly above us, trailing their shadows like wakes.

Stephen King

#9. The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

Gabriel Fackre

#10. 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 here nor there. Theology, at its best, can help to liberate us from our own anthropocentric limitations.

Andrew Linzey

#11. Faith, doubt, humility, and confidence - this is the stuff and substance of theology at its best. Swagger, smugness, and certainty - this is the stuff and substance of ideology at its worst.

Austin Fischer

#12. When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing. Her words had soared like an angel's over the swells of the organ. In fact, I now suspected, her entire theology had been taken from the hymnal.

Siri Mitchell

#13. Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Frederick William Faber

#14. Its best, the church administers the sacraments by feeding, healing, forgiving, comforting, and welcoming home the people God loves. At its worst, the church withholds the sacraments in an attempt to lock God in a theology, a list of rules, a doctrinal statement, a building. But our

Rachel Held Evans

#15. [ ... ] central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles' Creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.

Austin Fischer

#17. Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#18. Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)

Robin R. Meyers

#19. Theology at its best doesn't seek to solve, but to behold.

Amos Smith

#20. An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

Peter Boghossian

#21. The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health.

Albert Mohler

#22. The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Thomas Aquinas

#23. It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

Peter Kreeft

#24. Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.

Munia Khan

#25. At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.

Alistair Begg