Top 100 Quotes About Theology
#2. Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.
Francis Schaeffer
#3. Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#4. This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?
Tori Amos
#5. Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there.
Ron Currie Jr.
#6. The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
Dwight L. Moody
#7. The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.
Alexander MacLaren
#8. One compelling alternative to land theology is the recognition that Judaism consists most elementally in interpretation of and obedience to the Torah in its requirements of justice and holiness.
Walter Brueggemann
#9. Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
Henry Ward Beecher
#10. Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God's special revelation.
Perry G. Downs
#11. A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.
Mason Cooley
#12. The riot, then, was an exercise in science and theology - a seeking after clues by the living as to what life was all about.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. Joseph Smith, and this is not always fully appreciated within the tradition he initiated, did not feel that direct communication from God, gifts of seership, and an open, continuously expanding canon in any way obviated the need for theology.
Terryl L. Givens
#14. Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.
Amy Waldman
#15. Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
Terry Eagleton
#16. Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.
Robert Fulghum
#17. I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's not a matter of using it to explain things that scientists are mystified by.
Martin Rees
#18. To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
Hilda Phoebe Hudson
#19. The evolutionary facts about the emergence of man, e.g., the sudden appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro-Magnon man) no more than 35 thousand years ago, are as spectacular as the account in Genesis and allow hardly less room for theology.
Walker Percy
#20. Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
Vidal Sassoon
#21. The theology you live out is much more important to your daily life than the theology you claim to believe.
Tim Lane And Paul Tripp
#22. That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.
Thomas Paine
#23. What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.
Robert H. Schuller
#25. To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
Baron D'Holbach
#26. Because what touches His heart is not how much we know, but how much we love. Not how pure we are, but how passionate. Maybe that is why, when Pharisees were fighting over theology, prostitutes were falling at the Savior's feet and slipping into the kingdom of God on their tears.
Ken Gire
#27. the gospel itself is the climax of all theology.
Joe Thorn
#28. Although she was unenthusiastic about theology, she had long since realised that the real point of prayer was not to flatter those addressed; prayer was a form of meditation, she decided, and it did not detract from its efficacy that nobody was listening.
Alexander McCall Smith
#29. Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ... man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#30. The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#31. Show me a church's songs and I'll show you their theology.
Gordon D. Fee
#32. This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
J.I. Packer
#33. What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
Dada Vaswani
#34. This is the historical reality of the soul, which, unlike the soul represented by Christian theology, is not born in sin and subject to punishment, but is born rather out of methods of punishment, supervision, and constraint.
Michel Foucault
#36. Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.
Namsoon Kang
#37. Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.
Herbert McCabe
#38. The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#39. All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.
G. B. Caird
#40. Really, theology is simply what we think about God and then living that truth out in our right-now life.
Sarah Bessey
#41. I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the power of integration that they're capable of from thinking in that scale is something that's really unique to theology.
Marilynne Robinson
#42. Cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus' teaching and ministry, without any imperialist, kyriarchcal, hierarchical implications
Namsoon Kang
#43. We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message?
Myles Munroe
#44. In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
R.C. Sproul
#45. Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.
Joseph Joubert
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.
Starhawk
#49. People prefer a good story to sound theology!
Rossol Ian
#50. We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
R.C. Sproul
#51. Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
Alfred North Whitehead
#52. Gregory's words remain a sharp and timely rebuke to the continuing temptation to practice theology as though we could separate the exercise of our mind from the development of our character.
Christopher A. Hall
#53. It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
Lydia M. Child
#54. When fear rules your theology, God is nowhere to be found in your paradigm, no matter how many Bible verses you tack onto it.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#56. The concept of a supermind running the universe objectively, without compassion, is not new. Several religions are built around it. Thinking of God in these terms is not heresy but is advanced theology. The old-time God - the big bearded man sitting on a throne in the sky - is dead.
John A. Keel
#57. Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#58. The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton
#60. It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
Alfred Loisy
#61. Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#62. I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
Martin Luther
#63. The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.
Bertrand Russell
#64. 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
#65. Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.
Michael Dowd
#66. The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that Word to go on becoming flesh.
N. T. Wright
#67. Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
Albert Einstein
#69. In truth, our concepts 'natural' and 'unnatural' are taken not from biology, but from Christian theology. The
Yuval Noah Harari
#71. I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.
William P. Young
#72. When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell
#73. If theology means knowledge of God, every woman, serious about her faith, young or old, must be a theologian, must move beyond that 'simple spirit of worship' to the 'complexities of dogma,' dogma being the principles and beliefs forming the core of biblical faith, the only reliable guides for life.
Rosalie De Rosset
#74. Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.
Krista Tippett
#75. World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.
Billy Graham
#76. Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.
Kevin Vanhoozer
#77. Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.
Mortimer Adler
#78. Theology must have the character of a living procession.
Karl Barth
#79. You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to do with politics than with theology. I'm disappointed that clergy would be leading such a divisive call.
Tim McDonald
#80. When I was a young college teacher in my mid-twenties, an older colleague delighted in characterizing post-Enlightenment theology as "flat-tire theology" - "All the pneuma has gone out of it.
Marcus J. Borg
#81. Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.
William J. Clinton
#82. As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.
Henry Benjamin Whipple
#83. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.
Bertrand Russell
#84. We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.
Paul David Tripp
#85. Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God - truly know Him - is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#86. The constant challenge in Christian theology is to preach the whole counsel of God, while not emphazing one point of doctrine in a way that denies another.
Joel R. Beeke
#87. Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today.
James H. Cone
#88. Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.
Matt Chandler
#89. Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science.
Bertrand Russell
#90. Why shouldn't a mystical theology be possible? 'I want to touch God or become God,' I declared in my journal. All through that year I abandoned myself intermittently to these deliriums.
Simone De Beauvoir
#91. All theology consists in finding out what is meant by the words "He is." Let us begin.
Frank Sheed
#92. Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics ...
W. W. Rouse Ball
#93. The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.
Robert Anton Wilson
#94. God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.
Richard Wurmbrand
#95. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
Bill Moyers
#96. Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#97. while theology should inform a Christian's relationship with God, it should never take its place.
Henry T. Blackaby
#98. The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.
Theodore Parker
#99. It is time, and long past time, to reread the gospels as what we can only call political theology - not because they are not after all about God and spirituality and new birth and holiness and all the rest, but precisely because they are.
N. T. Wright
#100. Those two little words
says you
are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you who says it. You. And what do you know?
J. Mark Bertrand
