Quotes About Theology

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology.

Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.