Quotes About Theology

God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars.

The Jesuits have tried to combine God and the world, and have only earned the contempt of God and the world.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

Canonical books. The heretics at the beginning of the Church serve to prove the canonical books.

But for this mystery [of original sin], the most incomprehensible of all, we remain incomprehensible to ourselves.

les manichéens étoient les luthériens de leur temps, comme les luthériens sont les manichéens du nôtre.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

I am in the endless white marble sanctity of the Hall of Justice, the grateful recipient of wisdom from the revered Council as they satisfy my curiosity about a specific theological premise I am currently studying. As always, I am exhilarated, at an infinite peak of health, each breath deep, pure, and sweet, my heart strong and full of love at its most divine as I cherish every word the Council so freely, patiently offers.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Do the gods choose what is good because it is good, or is the good good because the gods choose it? If the first option is true, then the good is independent of the gods. But if the second option is true, then the very idea of what is good becomes arbitrary.

For North, economic collapse is not merely an economic prediction but a theological necessity. It is in the context of this collapse that biblical Christians will come to exercise dominion.

Theology that is not in touch with [the marginalized's] life experience cannot be living theology.

The theological foundation for Christian hope is the raising of the crucified Christ.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

Jesus died crying out to God 'My God, why hast thou forsaken me?' All Christian theology and all Christian life is basically an answer to the question which Jesus asked as he died.

In attempting to expound Irenaeus' theology, one should keep in mind that we are not dealing with a systematic theologian who derives all his conclusions from a few speculative principles. Therefore, rather than attempting to discover the ruling principle of that theology, it is best to follow the order that Irenaeus suggests in his Epideixis: to start with the Creator and then to pursue the history of salvation up to its final consummation.

Luke had a theological reason for this, for in his view the story he was telling shall not come to an end before the end of all history.

This triune God created humankind according to the divine image. But the human creature itself is not the image of God; that image is the Son, in whom and by whom we have been created.

I don't believe in gods, only in religion.

If there is a "problem of evil", there is also a "problem of good.

According to his divine nature Christ is "one in essence" (homoousios) with God the Father; according to his human nature he is homoousios with us men. According

So far from being pushed into the corner and treated as a piece of abstruse theologizing of interest only to specialists, the doctrine of the Trinity ought to have upon our daily life an effect that is nothing less than revolutionary. Made after the image of God the Trinity, human beings are called to reproduce on earth the mystery of mutual love that the Trinity lives in heaven. In

The Trinity is not a philosophical theory but the living God whom we worship; and so there comes a point in our approach to the Trinity when argumentation and analysis must give place to wordless prayer. "Let

I did not see sin", says Julian of Norwich in her Revelations, "for I believe that it has no kind of substance, no share in being; nor can it be recognized except by the pain caused by it.