Quotes About Theologies

#1. Luther labeled as theologies of glory all distortions of the Gospel that would promise the Christian elements of glory in this life if he will perfect or offer spiritual things that deserve God's favor.

Steven A. Hein

#2. His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them.

Carey Wallace

#3. It seems odd that a place so remarkably agrarian could have produced the prophecies and theologies upon which the entire world now relies.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

Robert H. Schuller

#5. Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.

Criss Jami

#6. The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd theologies I have ever in my life heard."


~R. Alan Woods ("Just Keeping It Real", Copyright 2012)

R. Alan Woods

#7. All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

Tennessee Williams

#8. Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

Luther Burbank

#9. The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.

Agnivesh

#10. The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

John Shelby Spong

#11. One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. The Bible itself has a hundred theologies.

(Karl Barth, January 27, 1959 to English Colloquia in Basel)

Raymond Kemp Anderson

#13. John teaches us that the strongest relationship with Christ may not necessarily be a complicated one. He teaches us that the greatest webs of loyalty are spun, not with airtight theologies or foolproof philosophies, but with friendships: stubborn, selfless, joyful friendships.

Max Lucado

#14. In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

George MacDonald

#15. Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

Stephen Colbert

#16. The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

Adyashanti

#17. Unity transcends time, style, and numbers. When people hold hands across their own theologies, that unity can bring down the modern-day walls of Jericho.

Martin Smith

#18. Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#20. Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Criss Jami

#21. The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.

Manly Hall

#22. Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

Luther Burbank

#23. I tell you, the one thing I hate is an absolutist. I hate absolutist ideologies, I hate absolutist aesthetics, I hate absolutist theologies, they're the burden and bane of this world.

Tobias Wolff

#24. Christians - who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism - often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for "new" theologies, "new" ways of worship, and "new" music, being quite willing to toss out their entire "old-fashioned" Christian heritage.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#25. I believe that dreaming an impossible world, is itself the task of theologies and that the disparity between the world-as-it-is (reality) and the world-as-it-ought-to-be (ideality) is where a prophetic call comes in.

Namsoon Kang

#26. Theologies of glory ascend to heaven with humanly devised methods for bringing Christ down or for descending into the depths to make him living and real to us, but a theology of the cross receives him in the humble and weak form of those creaturely means that he has ordained.3

Michael S. Horton

#27. When 'biblical' theologies ignore the gospels, something is clearly very wrong. (on atonement theories)

N. T. Wright

#28. Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Idries Shah

#29. I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

Luke Bryan

#30. What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.

Joyce Meyer

#31. Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

Fawzi Ibrahim

#32. I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.

George W. Bush