Theology Quotes

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

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

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.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

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

Theology is anthropology.

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.

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.