Christian Theologians Quotes

#1. Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.

Rodney Stark

#2. The popular idea that Christianity says "human nature" is inherently bad is actually the opposite of what the earliest Christian theologians believed.

Nonna Verna Harrison

#3. 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 into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level.

David Novak

#4. It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.

Rodney Stark

#5. 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 Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.

David Novak

#6. That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships
although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.

Rodney Stark

#7. You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

Pope Francis

#8. You stupefied me. We waxed,
Carnivores, late and alight
In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

John Ashbery

#9. We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.

Karen Armstrong

#10. Normative Christian theology has enshrined a doctrine that obscures the truth in the scriptures. God is in a box and theologians scramble to preserve the box. It appears to be an attempt to rescue God from the shame of a creation-gone-bad.

Leo Hare

#11. God also gave Theologians, Biblical scholars, and Christian authors to mature the Saints and to promote the cause of Christ and God's Kingdom".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#12. Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

J.I. Packer

#13. You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.

Alonzo M. Clark

#14. It's amazing what you find you are made of when you dig deeply enough to figure out.

Jennifer Howard

#15. The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.

John Bradshaw

#16. When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

Julius Erving

#17. Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

Karen Armstrong

#19. The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

Henri Nouwen

#20. Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions, their aim was not to deny the reality of God but to safeguard God's transcendence.

Karen Armstrong

#21. La-di-dah, just out for a little spin, don't mind me.

Jody Gehrman

#22. Waste no more time arguing that a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

#23. According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.

Richard Lindzen