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The Bible knows nothing of any contrast between truth and experience, head and heart, theology and practical living.
— Michael S. Horton
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.
— Jurgen Moltmann
...celebrating the Eucharist as a remembrance of Christ means practicing God's justice towards neighbors, strangers, and enemies alike.
— Patrick T. McCormick
I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
— John Piper
This is not mathematics, it is theology.
(On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.) — Paul Gordan
(On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.) — Paul Gordan
Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.
— John Milbank
Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
— Augustine Of Hippo
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.
— Criss Jami
Theology is ignorance with wings.
— Sam Harris
If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
— C.S. Lewis
Theology, it turns out, is Satan's favorite game.
— Mike Mason
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
— Michael Horton
Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
— John Kennedy Toole
We need God's great-grace in all spheres of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.
— Roland Allen
It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.
— Criss Jami
Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people
— Namsoon Kang
Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
— C.S. Lewis
IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE
— Charleston Parker
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
— J.I. Packer
I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
— Katherine Heigl
It's no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some human link.
— William Zinsser
The miracle of the Resurrection, and the theology of that miracle, comes first: the biography comes later as a comment on it.
— C.S. Lewis
Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.
— C.S. Lewis
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
— Dallas Willard
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.
— Frank Tipler
Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.
— Preston Sprinkle
I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.
— Walt Mossberg
while theology should inform a Christian's relationship with God, it should never take its place.
— Henry T. Blackaby
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
— C.S. Lewis
God's dialogue with us becomes truly human, since God conducts his part as man.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
— Thomas Merton
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
There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
— R.C. Sproul
Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.
— Guy Consolmagno
Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes.
— Frederick S. Leahy
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
Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does; god's firewalls are so strong no attempt has ever been successful.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity.
— Thomas E. Reynolds
I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.
— Namsoon Kang
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
I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.
— Neil Cross
Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church.
— Kenneth S. Kantzer
Reformed theology isn't a sledgehammer with which to hit people, it's a pillow on which they can lay their weary heads.
— Burk Parsons
You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.
— Boethius
Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.
— Alan Aldridge
Show me a church's songs and I'll show you their theology.
— Gordon D. Fee
An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
— Peter Boghossian
And Richard Phillips writes, Theology bores today's Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself.
— Tim Challies
When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.
— William P. Smith
Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
— William A. Dembski
Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
— Jeremy Aldana
Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.
— Pope John Paul II
I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.
— Brooke Bida
I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.
— Austin Fischer
One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity.
— Charles C. Ryrie
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
— Augustine Of Hippo
theology is the rare science that finds it necessary to demonstrate the very existence of its subject matter.
— Sherwin T. Wine
Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.
— Arnold Albert Van Ruler
Peace is a deeper reality than violence."
p. 231 — Stanley Hauerwas
p. 231 — Stanley Hauerwas
Indifference to all the refinements of life
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley
All theology consists in finding out what is meant by the words "He is." Let us begin.
— Frank Sheed
The God-given vocation of theology is to be a servant of the Truth, never his self-appointed master.
— John Clark
She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila
— Mark Salzman
We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked.
— Jeffrey Rasley
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
— Mark Twain
I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
— Sarah Wayne Callies
Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
— Mark Batterson
God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.
— John Constantine
One man's pornography is another man's theology.
— Clive Barker
I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.
— C.S. Lewis
Grace easily turns to hyper-grace in a world that has lost its view of God's throne room and a biblical theology of sin.
— James MacDonald
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
As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[
— Michael S. Horton
If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones!
— C.S. Lewis
If books can transform, those have to be conscientious.
— Sudhir Mittal
Reformed theology is ALWAYS being reformed in each new generation. And reformed theology as it is usually reported today is NOT the whole story.
— Oliver D. Crisp
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
— Charles Bradlaugh
I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
— Krista Tippett
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
— Jose Bergamin
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
— Ann Druyan
We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.
— Pope Francis
Theology is unnecessary.
— Stephen Hawking