Theology Quotes
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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music. (Quote by - Wyclef Jean)
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. (Quote by - Daniel Bell )
Theology is Anthropology. (Quote by - Anselm Feuerbach)
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
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. (Quote by - Alfred Loisy)
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. (Quote by - Karl Barth)
There is only one theology, but there are many theologians. (Quote by - Athenagoras I)
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before. (Quote by - Godfried Danneels)
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. (Quote by - John Polkinghorne)
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines. (Quote by - Roger Ebert)
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. (Quote by - Arthur Peacocke)
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. (Quote by - John Gresham Machen)
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. (Quote by - Henry Benjamin Whipple)
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. (Quote by - Mikhail Bakunin)
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? (Quote by - E. O. Wilson)
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul. (Quote by - Hans Kung)
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. (Quote by - Kenneth L. Pike)
There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel. (Quote by - Lewis Tappan)
See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. (Quote by - Bill Moyers)
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. (Quote by - John Polkinghorne)
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more. (Quote by - Godfried Danneels)
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)
Theology is the logic of the Devil. (Quote by - Jose Bergamin)
Theology is a science of mind applied to God. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful. (Quote by - John Polkinghorne)
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. (Quote by - Robert Anton Wilson)
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. (Quote by - Walter Martin)
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. (Quote by - Leslie Stephen)
The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)
My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians. (Quote by - Tony Campolo)
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. (Quote by - Al Sharpton)
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein )
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. (Quote by - John Frame)
Theology is the finding of bad reasons for things we are going to believe anyway. (Quote by - G E Moore)
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all? (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. (Quote by - William James)
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. (Quote by - George Macdonald)
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done. (Quote by - Jim Wallis)
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say: Sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say. (Quote by - W H Auden)
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. (Quote by - Harold Bloom)
I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. (Quote by - Sun Myung Moon)
Faith is more basic than language or theology. (Quote by - Sydney Carter)
