Quotes About Theology

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

You think Jesus ever tried to talk God out of some of that stuff? 'Instead of that whole crucifixion, how about we do a big fundraiser!'

Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible.

One of my professors said to me once, "Any god that can be killed off will be killed, but if I can shake up your faith in your god, it means you already don't have much of a god."

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

The most important thing you think is what you think about God.

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

If God's in me, he's a tumor.

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.