THEOLOGY QUOTES
quotations about theology
A policy forged in theology is not about to be changed by the urging of "infidels."
CAL THOMAS
"Saudi Arabia's Duplicity", The Patriot Post, May 27, 2017
When all is said and done, science is about things and theology is about words. Things behave in the same way everywhere, but words do not.
FREEMAN DYSON
The Scientist as Rebel
Has the trade of interpreting the Lord's matters gone out, discouraged by the time-worn fact that nobody succeeds at it? No, it still flourishes; there was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
MARK TWAIN
"As Concerns Interpreting the Deity", What Is Man? And Other Philosophical Writings
All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass -- "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua 10:13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm 104:5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.
ALAN TURING
The Essential Turing: seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, plus the secrets of Enigma
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask--half our great theological and metaphysical problems--are like that.
C. S. LEWIS
A Grief Observed
Theology is classified superstition.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Discussions
When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them.
PAUL GOODMAN
"Spring and Summer 1956", Five Years
A theologian is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there -- and finding it.
ANONYMOUS
Clearly, theology is impossible without faith; it is part of the very process of faith, which seeks an ever deeper understanding of God's self-disclosure culminating in Christ.
POPE FRANCIS
Encyclical Letter Lumen Fidei of the Supreme Pontiff Francis to the Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, Consecrated Persons, and the Lay Faithful on Faith, June 29, 2013
Theology is more than simply an effort of human reason to analyze and understand, along the lines of the experimental sciences. God cannot be reduced to an object.
POPE FRANCIS
Encyclical Letter Lumen Fidei of the Supreme Pontiff Francis to the Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, Consecrated Persons, and the Lay Faithful on Faith, June 29, 2013
Any God that can be explained by theology is not God.
JEFF HOOD
"Memories of God: Murder and Something Greater", Patheos, May 22, 2017
Theology is not #Mathematics. 2 + 2 in #Theology can make 5. Because it has to do with #God and real #life of #people.
ANTONIO SPADARO
Twitter post, January 5, 2017
Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.
ARTHUR MILLER
The Crucible
A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.
CHARLES SPURGEON
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
KARL BARTH
attributed, Quotations from the Wayside
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
"On Religious Affections", The Works of Jonathan Edwards
A theology is only as good as the implications that flow from it.
JEFFREY K. SALKIN
"Why Are There Two Jerusalems?", Jewish Journal, May 24, 2017
When you separate theology from ministry, you liberate your ministry and have better theology.
ANDY STANLEY
Catalyst, April 22, 2016