Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. Votes: 8
Robert Green IngersollTheology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. Votes: 6
H. L. MenckenThe idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously. Votes: 5
Albert EinsteinMedicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. Votes: 4
Martin LutherTheology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind. Votes: 3
Gerhard EbelingThe Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer. Votes: 3
Gabriel FackreTheology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world. Votes: 3
Miroslav VolfTheology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. Votes: 3
Julia Ward HoweI do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. Votes: 3
Albert EinsteinA professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia] Votes: 3
Thomas JeffersonTheology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature. Votes: 3
Robert Green IngersollTheology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it. Votes: 3
Søren KierkegaardTheology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it. Votes: 3
Soren KierkegaardThe Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma. Votes: 3
Albert SchweitzerIGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE Votes: 1
Charleston ParkerCosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective Votes: 1
Namsoon KangSuffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised. Votes: 1
Joni Eareckson TadaIn any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest. Votes: 1
Philip Jenkins... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord. Votes: 1
Augustine of HippoReligion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all. Votes: 1
Namsoon KangAn educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know. Votes: 1
Peter Boghossianthe cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_. Votes: 1
Namsoon KangCosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people Votes: 1
Namsoon KangFollowers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him. Votes: 1
Ron BrackinEverything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. Votes: 1
Peter KreeftTheological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity. Votes: 1
Namsoon KangWorship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God. Votes: 1
Mark BattersonA covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution. Votes: 1
Scott HahnLearning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better. Votes: 1
John Paul IIGod's dialogue with us becomes truly human, since God conducts his part as man. Votes: 1
Pope Benedict XVIQuestion the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes. Votes: 1
Craig M. MullaneyThe Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. Votes: 1
Joni Eareckson TadaLord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes. Votes: 1
Frederick S. LeahyYou will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle. Votes: 1
Shannon L. AlderI want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect. Votes: 1
Namsoon KangIsn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger-- Votes: 1
Gregory MaguireJoy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God. Votes: 1
Carolyn Custis JamesWhen they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness. Votes: 1
Zach WeinerHe was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels. Votes: 1
Elton TruebloodIs it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? Votes: 1
John CalvinVery small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems. Votes: 1
C. J. MahaneyOne possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself. Votes: 1
Lee SmolinAn Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind. Votes: 1
Charleston ParkerThe less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring. Votes: 1
Meister EckhartThe main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things. Votes: 1
Alistair BeggPrayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total. Votes: 1
Alistair BeggTake your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. Votes: 1
Karl BarthCheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. Votes: 1
Dietrich BonhoefferNo language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies. Votes: 1
Elizabeth JohnstonAbout the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity. Votes: 1
Donald MillerWhatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him. Votes: 1
J. I. PackerI believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism. Votes: 1
Austin FischerThere are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. Votes: 1
Thomas Henry Huxley...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God Votes: 1
Frank SheedA poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. Votes: 1
Søren KierkegaardWe...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough. Votes: 1
Scott HahnThe living water that never runs dry,The water of life, Lord, the saviour of the world. Votes: 1
Lailah Gifty AkitaI don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ. Votes: 1
Jay E. AdamsIf you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it. Votes: 1
D.A. SimpsonThat vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God: Votes: 1
Augustine of HippoWe degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him. Votes: 1
Fyodor DostoyevskyIf you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed. Votes: 1
Herbert McCabeAnd what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? Votes: 1
Ann DruyanLike apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. Votes: 1
Peter KreeftWe are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you? Votes: 1
Randy AlcornI study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator. Votes: 1
Jan PotockiOh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael) Votes: 1
Ellis PetersGod's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are. Votes: 1
David PlattIf you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul. Votes: 1
Russell KirkLet us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. Votes: 1
Martin Luther King Jr.We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that. Votes: 1
John WyndhamJesus did not die just to save you from hell. He paid the price to give you all of heaven. Votes: 1
Carlos A. RodriguezNot only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution. Votes: 1
Andrew CarnegieWe may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage. Votes: 1
Francis A. SchaefferIt is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else. Votes: 1
Peter KreeftI consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race.
Alfred North WhiteheadAll men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPolitics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.
William J. ClintonThe world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
Dwight L. MoodyAny theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.
James H. ConeThe study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.
Thomas PaineMany Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.
Bill JohnsonFaith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.
Beth MooreIf you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.
Charles SpurgeonOur theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.
Godfried Danneelsall theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.
Elisabeth Schussler FiorenzaAll true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
J. I. PackerHow do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
Bill MoyersLike all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.
Halldór LaxnessA theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
Karen ArmstrongIf our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
J. I. PackerWhen ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
Bill MoyersEvangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
Os GuinnessClassical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.
Robert H. SchullerPaul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
Will DurantDeep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
Frederick William FaberI would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
Miguel de Unamuno