Quotes About Theology

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

For many centuries Christians also believed in the idea of reincarnation, and it wasn't until the Second Council of Constantinople in A.D. 553 that reincarnation was officially declared a heresy and mention of it was stricken from public texts. The powers that be didn't like the idea of people getting infinite chances to get it right, because then you wouldn't need the church to offer you salvation.

All is not lost. In fact, as ever with Augustine, God uses our sin to move us toward salvation. The theologian for whom the fall is a "happy fault," felix culpa, —since redemption will be sweeter after the fall than it would have been without it— argues that God can make use of our hard-headedness in teaching and being taught.

God doesn't want to overwhelm us with a lot of theology in order to receive our healing. He keeps it simple. Nonetheless, there is great power to be found in these simple and easily implemented truths. The first of them is to "draw near to God and He will draw near to you" (James 4:8).

Before the Christian religion had, as it were, humanized the idea of the divinity, and brought it somewhat nearer to us, there was very little said of the love of God.