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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
Every human being is, by definition, a theologian.
— Russell D. Moore
If you don't know the difference between theology and religiousstudies, 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
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 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
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
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
