Great Theological Quotes

#1. English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.

Ben Miles

#2. Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

C.S. Lewis

#3. The second theological perspective that influenced many of the Reformers was the belief that the Great Commission passages already had been fulfilled during the lifetime of the apostles.

Timothy Tennent

#4. Happiness is an indescribable intense ecstasy of life that comes from deep love and kindness for the world and all of its contents.

Debasish Mridha

#5. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is ... at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away ...

Virginia Woolf

#6. Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

John Polkinghorne

#7. You." The word was spat out at her, full of hatred. "What have you done to me?

Marissa Meyer

#8. I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Lee Iacocca

#9. If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

Carolyn Maloney

#10. Holism is when two plus two equals infinity.

Rob Bell

#11. A reporter asked Barth what was the single most important theological discovery he'd made. After stopping to consider his answer carefully, Barth said, "Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so." Indeed, we can never outgrow that one great, majestic, and simple transforming truth.

Mark Driscoll

#12. The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

Ronald Knox

#13. In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist."

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#14. I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

Barney Frank

#15. There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Louise Brooks

#16. To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#17. Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

Luther Burbank