Theology Quotes - Page 3

• As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  God, Long, Heaven

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Religious, Jesus, Prayer

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• We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or - in the words of Our Lord - it is the Spirit that makes us know the voice of Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Voice, Spirit

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• For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

  Robert Jastrow

  Bible, Faith, Dream

  God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)

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• I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Life, God, Faith

  "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.

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• Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

  Denis Diderot

  Religion, Different, Revelations

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Humans, Human Mind

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• In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

  Thomas Merton

  Important, Devil, Prove

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.

  Billy Graham

  Mean, Race, Mold

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

  Karl Barth

  Needs, Proof, Prove

  "Quotations from the Wayside". Book by Brenda Wong, 1998.

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• If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Ideas, No Idea

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• The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

  Albert Einstein

  Dogma, Cosmic

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• Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

  Martin Luther

  Math, Medicine, People

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• When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Notebook, Prayer, Heart

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• Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

  Miroslav Volf

  Understanding, World, Mending

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• What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Church, Study

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• Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Missing, Religion

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• As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Simple, Grace, Religion

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• Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

  John Gresham Machen

  Biblical, Criticism, Alternatives

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• Worm theology is too high for me.

  Jack Miller

  Worms

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• Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.

  Dallas Willard

  Thinking, Passing By, Mind

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• In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality

  Charles Hodge

  Reality, Path, Determined

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.278

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• Theology is a subject without an object

  Dan Barker

  Subjects, Objects

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