Great Theology Quotes

#1. What a way to learn great theology! That's what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. "And Can It Be" is like putting the doctrine of salvation to music. "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is a melodic lesson in grace. No wonder good hymns make for strong faith!

Joni Eareckson Tada

#2. Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

Kevin Harrington

#3. I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race ... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar..

Richard Whately

#5. The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

John Piper

#6. God doesn't want to overwhelm us with a lot of theology in order to receive our healing. He keeps it simple. Nonetheless, there is great power to be found in these simple and easily implemented truths. The first of them is to "draw near to God and He will draw near to you" (James 4:8).

Dutch Sheets

#7. Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

Halldor Laxness

#8. The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.

Andrew Dickson White

#9. Great praxis demands great piety.

Sallie McFague

#10. Learning is by nature, curiosity.

Philo

#11. I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

Bryan Brown

#12. Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.

Spurgeon, Charles H.

#13. Despite the chronic shortages of almost every good and commodity, there was no shortage of paper, since everyone in the neighborhood was required to write confessions on a periodic basis. Even

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#14. I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

Mark Twain

#15. Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?

Augustine Of Hippo

#16. One can be an orthodox Church in every way: great structure, good theology, excellent sermons and teaching, lots of giving; but if the Great commission is not taught and obeyed, it is a heretical church.

John Willis Zumwalt

#17. Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as extensions of himself, of his body, essential, required, uniquely his. This thought made Silas uneasy.

Ari Berk

#18. The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor.

Thomas Watson

#19. All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it ... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

Melissa Pritchard

#20. kitchen radio brought news that the jihadists who had the previous day seized an ocean liner in the Mediterranean were now beheading passengers.

Dean Koontz

#21. Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.

Alister E. McGrath

#22. The theology of glory is inseparably linked with the theology of the Cross. The Suffering Servant has the great mission to bring God's light to the world. Yet it is in the darkness of the Cross that this mission is fulfilled.

Pope Benedict XVI

#23. There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Thomas Huxley

#24. It is of great importance for a student of Old Testament theology to notice that in every period of the discipline, the questions, methods, and possibilities in which study is cast arise from the sociointellectual climate in which the work must be done.
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Walter Brueggemann

#25. As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.

Tiffany Madison

#26. Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Charles Spurgeon

#27. The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Lemony Snicket

#28. Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Martin Luther

#29. Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God ... [The heart] is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.

John Eldredge

#30. We ought to know the Lord and fullness of His great grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.

James Frey

#32. We need God's great-grace in all spheres of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita