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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) — Augustine Of Hippo

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. — Robert Anton Wilson

Science is the kind of sacred cow which theology was five hundred years ago ... — John Lukacs

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

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk. — Joy Davidman

Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism. — John Milbank

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself? — Augustine Of Hippo

Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology. — James H. Cone

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further. — Criss Jami

Theology is ignorance with wings. — Sam Harris

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God. — Herbert McCabe

Matthew 10:34
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. — Anonymous

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones. — C.S. Lewis

Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul. — John Kennedy Toole

It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence. — Criss Jami

Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people — Namsoon Kang

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE — Charleston Parker

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology. — Hilda Phoebe Hudson

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred. — Baruch Spinoza

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity. — Luther Burbank

All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action. — J.I. Packer

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up. — Katherine Heigl

Jesus Christ, a Nazarene, lived in Nazareth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[Christian theology] awakens pain over the present internal and external enslavements of human beings — Jurgen Moltmann

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'. — Robert H. Schuller

We can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God — Frank Sheed

The miracle of the Resurrection, and the theology of that miracle, comes first: the biography comes later as a comment on it. — C.S. Lewis

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality. — Beth Moore

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do. — Shannon L. Alder

Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one. — Dallas Willard

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve? — Namsoon Kang

Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics. — Frank Tipler

Theology without practice is the theology of demons — Maximus The Confessor

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology. — William Mapother

Grace easily turns to hyper-grace in a world that has lost its view of God's throne room and a biblical theology of sin. — James MacDonald

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself. — Zeena Schreck

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. — Albert Einstein

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss. — Matt Chandler

If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones! — C.S. Lewis

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. — Charles Spurgeon

As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[ — Michael S. Horton

Mission is 'the mother of theology'. — Martin Kahler

Worm theology is too high for me. — Jack Miller

This is not mathematics; this is theology. — Paul Gordan

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith. (Br. Cadfael) — Ellis Peters

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves. — Martin Luther

Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire. — Darrell W. Johnson

Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath. — Preston Sprinkle

Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods. — Terry Pratchett

Theology, I still think, is due to lack of faith. — Karl R. Popper

I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife — Kurt Godel

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner

All theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

There is no more hateful person than a Christian who thinks you've got your theology wrong. — Sarah Bessey

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. — Peter Kreeft

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him — Jeremy Aldana

Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better. — Pope John Paul II

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything. — Brooke Bida

I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism. — Austin Fischer

One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity. — Charles C. Ryrie

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. — Augustine Of Hippo

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world. — Miroslav Volf

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners. — Bill Johnson

theology is the rare science that finds it necessary to demonstrate the very existence of its subject matter. — Sherwin T. Wine

Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world. — Arnold Albert Van Ruler

Peace is a deeper reality than violence."
p. 231 — Stanley Hauerwas

Indifference to all the refinements of life
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley

All theology consists in finding out what is meant by the words "He is." Let us begin. — Frank Sheed

The God-given vocation of theology is to be a servant of the Truth, never his self-appointed master. — John Clark

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity. — Namsoon Kang

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him. — Socrates

No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed. — Matthew Henry

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila — Mark Salzman

We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked. — Jeffrey Rasley

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great. — Mark Twain

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word. — Bill Johnson

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology. — Karl Barth

Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning. — Francis Chan

No cross, no Christian — Daniel Deutschlander

The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer. — Gabriel Fackre

Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer. — Reinhold Niebuhr

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both. — J.I. Packer

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches. — Jeremy Bentham

In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship — N.D. Wilson

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. — Joseph Joubert

Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger
— Gregory Maguire

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe. — Sarah Wayne Callies

Reformed theology is ALWAYS being reformed in each new generation. And reformed theology as it is usually reported today is NOT the whole story. — Oliver D. Crisp

Liberty's chief foe is theology. — Charles Bradlaugh

I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life. — Krista Tippett

Theology is the logic of the Devil. — Jose Bergamin

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. — Ann Druyan

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions. — Pope Francis

Theology is unnecessary. — Stephen Hawking

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. — Alistair Begg