Quotes About Theology

When love wins, then it wins in fact only through love. But those who love cannot guarantee the victory of love. One can believe in the victory of love only in the sense that one believes in the identity of God and love.

when thinking becomes involved with faith, it will also understand that God cannot be thought without faith. That is the initial point from which evangelical theology proceeds.

God is subject, predicate, and object of the revelation-event.

No concept of God independent of the reality of Jesus Christ may decide what is possible and impossible for God.

A biblical theology of persecution creates a framework for understanding God's sovereign purpose in allowing the evil dominions of darkness to inflict suffering on His children.

The "Early Fathers" observed most of the ancient Babylonian system plus Jewish theology and Greek philosophy. They all perverted most of the teachings of Christ and His apostles. They paved the way for the Roman Catholic machine that was to come into existence.

For these people religion is the only form of intellectuality.

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

The chief trouble with the Churches is that they cannot make the truth about this world fit in with their theology.

English translation of the Koran. I wonder how, with such a repetitive farrago of platitudes, expressing so self-evident a theology and an ethic so puerile, Islam can have spread as it has.

God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp.

Leibniz invented the term "theodicy" (in its French and Latin forms) to mean the justification of God's ways to man—or, as an unbeliever might put it, the art of making excuses on behalf of God. Among

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

Paul calls these Powers by the names of Sin and Death. These Powers cannot be accounted for simply as the product of individual guilt.

The Central Empires represented Roman Catholicism, the Allies Protestantism and Orthodoxy. Let them unite.

Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now—I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.

Frank J. Tipler

there would be an infinite amount of such time between now and the Omega Point.

If we are continuously producing things which have no attribute of matter, there must be in us some element which is not matter, to produce them. This element we call spirit.

We are nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that come into God's head. — Franz Kafka, quoted in Walter Benjamin's Selected Writings . (Belknap Press; First Edition edition December 1, 1996)

The text, 'Is God a White Racist', By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed.

I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.