Theological Quotes

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.

All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.

No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.

A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.