Quotes About Theology

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

I no more believe in the God of the Jews than I believe in any God.

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?