Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
Tony Campolo

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein

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

Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations.
Larry Graham

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
John Polkinghorne

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
Jeremy Taylor

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
Karl Barth

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

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin

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

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Irving Babbitt

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

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

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Henry Ward Beecher

Theology is anthropology.
Anselm Feuerbach

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein