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Quotes About Theology

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.
~ Hannah Arendt
Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.
~ Herbert McCabe
Jews are a perverse people, accursed by God forever.
~ Hilary of Poitiers
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
~ Johann Most
Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.
~ John B. S. Haldane
I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.
~ Albert Einstein
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
~ C. S. Lewis
All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.
~ R. C. Sproul
...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have been or will be invented.
~ Richard Dawkins
Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.
~ Frederick The Great
Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism
~ Ibn Warraq
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended
~ Peter van Inwagen
The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
~ Albert Einstein
It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
~ E. O. Wilson
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is.
~ James Agee
I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
~ Martin Sheen
The problem's name is God.
~ Salman Rushdie
The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.
~ Samuel Wilberforce
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
~ John Shelby Spong
I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
~ Quentin Tarantino