Quotes About Theology

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.

You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we're not interested in it anymore.

Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.

God is not good, or else he could do better.

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.

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.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.