Theology Quotes

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
Karen Armstrong

Poetry, End, Words

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
John Polkinghorne

Thought, Ideas, Process

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
Vidal Sassoon

Society, Sure, Toward

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
Lionel Blue

Experience, Society, Political

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Walter Martin

Jesus, Christian, Makes

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.
Mayim Bialik

Work, Person, Pretty

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
Terry Eagleton

Knowledge, Someone, Book

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton

Love, Philosophy, Read

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
Sun Myung Moon

War, Enemy, Lost

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Kenneth L. Pike

Science, True, Within

Theology is the logic of the Devil.
Jose Bergamin

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
Wyclef Jean

Music, War, School

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.
Lewis Tappan

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

Wisdom, Human, Seems

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom

School, Thinking, Through

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
Hans Kung

Important, Whole, Romans

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
Jim Wallis

War, Done, Serious

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell

Religion, Experience, Religious

Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.
Amy Waldman

Today, Words, Christian

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

Religion, Fascinated

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.
Ali Landry

Life, Husband, Big

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
Claudio Hummes

Jesus, Made, Used

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
Godfried Danneels

Everything, Philosophy, Revolution

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.
Godfried Danneels

Time, Crisis, Last

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
Arthur Peacocke

Life, Integrity, Honesty

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.
Mike McCurry

Faith, Social, Left

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
John Gresham Machen

Criticism, Liberal, Studies

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
Leslie Stephen

God, Mind, Doubt

Faith is more basic than language or theology.
Sydney Carter

Faith, Language, Basic

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
John Frame

Sometimes, Guilty, Few

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