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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt. — Thomas A. Edison

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all. — Karl Barth

Every human being is, by definition, a theologian. — Russell D. Moore

If you don't know the difference between theology and religious
studies, then you're a theologian. — Brian Bocking

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. — Martin Luther

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. — Denis Diderot

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Someone once defined a theologian as a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that was not there. — Darius Brasher

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom. — Kevin Vanhoozer

A sour religion is the devil's religion. — John Wesley

Robby Brees was such a gifted theologian. — Andrew Smith

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing. — Karen Armstrong

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting. — Ellen Glasgow

A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God — Paul Washer

If you want to be a radical theologian, you have to be able to say, "I have no idea what is going on." That's being a radical theologian. — Art Hochberg

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation. — Martin Luther

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in. — Steven J. Lawson

Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology. — Carl E. Olson

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it. — Laurence J. Peter

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself. — Karl Barth

Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories. — Madeleine L'Engle

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian. — Roger Zelazny

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' — Timothy Keller

Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian. — James E. Crimmins

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller. — William Golding

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian. — C.S. Lewis

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion. — Flannery O'Connor

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. — Stanley Hauerwas

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God. — Kevin Vanhoozer

Whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian. — Marie De Gournay

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor. — D. Elton Trueblood

I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery. — Brene Brown

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent. — Thomas Merton

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. — Denis Diderot

For a long time I wanted to become a theologian ... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy. — Johannes Kepler

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven. — George MacDonald

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? — Bertrand Russell

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories. — Madeleine L'Engle

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. — Constance Baker Motley