Theology Quotes
Theology Quote of the day
To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.
Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.
God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels.
God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.
He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system.
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.
God's dialogue with us becomes truly human, since God conducts his part as man.
To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.
With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing
The crux of Bible-Onlyism is that the Word became ink and dwelt among us, and we have only read about His glory.
The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.
Just as is child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, so is grace freely given by God, in sacred moment of salvation.
Very small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems.
In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.
Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire.
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.
The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.
All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient…
Moreover God hath ordained man in this world, as it were, the very image of himself, to the intent, that he, as it were a god on earth, should provide for the wealth of all creatures.
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.
That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:
The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.
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.
