Quotes About Theology

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.