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Quotes About Theology

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
~ Saint Augustine
We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.
~ Paul David Tripp
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.
~ Richard Stearns
And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
~ Anselm of Canterbury
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
~ Jules Renard
My conscience is captive to the Word of God
~ Martin Luther
My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?
~ Brandon Sanderson
There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.
~ B. B. Warfield
We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.
~ Johannes Scotus Eriugena
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
~ John Cleese
If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?
~ Matt Groening
There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.
~ Jacobus Arminius
To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!
~ James H. Cone
Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
~ Samuel Butler
God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.
~ Wayne Grudem
If God and Christ were equal then Christ should be called God's brother, not God's Son.
~ Arius
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Q: Prove God doesn't exist. A: That's a tough one. Show me how it's done by proving Zeus and Apollo don't exist, and I'll use your method.
~ Pat Condell
What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself
~ R. C. Sproul
The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.
~ J. I. Packer
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
~ Thomas Aquinas