Quotes About Theology

The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.

God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.

How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Did he who made the lamb make thee?

God's only excuse is that he does not exist

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.

Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.

Belief about God is religion. Belief in God is faith.

I wonder when god will get a microchip?

Science is theology for an atheist

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.