Theologian Quotes
No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.
Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.
He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.
Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.
Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.
One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.
I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.
Jonathan Edwards is without a doubt the most brilliant mind America ever produced. I'm not talking about theologian; I'm talking about mind and everybody. I put him above Einstein and everybody else.
Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.
Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.
His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
Theologians should study in a seminary and before graduating they should make a visit to heaven and hell after which they should submit their thesis and graduate.
No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs
Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.
