Theology Quotes - Page 4

• Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Knows

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.322, Library of Alexandria

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• In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

  Edith Hamilton

  Religion, Conservative, Temper

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• The moment the word 'why' crosses your lips, you are doing theology.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Lips, Moments, Crosses

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• When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.

  Albert Mohler

  Doctrine, Way, Conviction

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• Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology; the world judges us by our behavior. People don't necessarily want to know what we believe about the Bible. They want to see if what we believe makes a difference in our lives. Our actions either bring glory to God or misrepresent His truth.

  Carolyn Mahaney

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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• Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Mean, Men

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• Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Orthodoxy, Sin

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Desire, Doe

  R. C. Sproul (2005). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.159, Baker Books

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• These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Fashion, Men

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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• Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

  Bonaventure

  Love, Doctors, Old Woman

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• The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

  Tommy Douglas

  Humanity, Tomorrow, Dogma

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• Theology without practice is the theology of demons

  Maximus the Confessor

  Practice, Demon

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• Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

  Paul David Tripp

  Without Love

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Feb 03, 2014

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• The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

  Theodore Parker

  Christian, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, Boston, Vol. 1". Book by John Weiss, p. 374, 1864.

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• Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

  Oswald Chambers

  Practicals

  Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

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• Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it. Just as correct principles, when applied, carry their own witness that they are true, so do correct personal improvement programs. But we must not expect personal improvement without pain or some 'remodeling.' We can't expect to have the thrills of revealed religion without the theology. We cannot expect to have the soul stretching without Christian service.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Christian, Pain, Thinking

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• The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Men, Law, Religion

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.169, Transaction Publishers

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• Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.

  Thurman Arnold

  Class, Opiates, Economic

  Thurman Wesley Arnold (1950). “The Folklore of Capitalism”, p.16, Transaction Publishers

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• The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

  Bertrand Russell

  Character, Practice, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.106, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

  James Luther Adams

  Religious, Justice, Movement

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• Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology, or a channeled Atlantean priest as readily as a biblical prophet.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Religious, Mean, Biblical

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• In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

  Don Herold

  Devil, Males, Figures

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• Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism.

  John Milbank

  Christian, Hair, Nihilism

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• One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

  Jeremy Begbie

  Art, Makeup, Ability

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• We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered more wrong than they have committed, and that there must be flaws in whatever theology of nature or hierarchy of sins has made homosexuality be viewed as the nadir of depravity... This feeling increases when one becomes acquainted with responsible, Christian, homosexual people.

  Paul King Jewett

  Christian, Cutting, Gay

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