Quotes About Theology

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Question boldly even the existence of God.

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première. God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

Your God is altogether too human.

People invent gods to explain their suffering.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

The whole theory of what Satan is, it's Lucifer, the highest of the seraphim, the bearer of God's light, who at a certain point comes to believe he is what is being revealed to him.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds. This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!

Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.

No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well.

I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.