Theology Quotes

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Theology is anthropology.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.