Top 30 Theology Quotes
1. This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious. — Dorothee Solle
2. The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer. — Gabriel Fackre
3. This one word ‘grace’ contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology. — J. I. Packer
4. Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. — Julia Ward Howe
5. A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. — Karen Armstrong
6. Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. — Kenneth Lee Pike
7. To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred. — Ludwig Feuerbach
8. The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. — Albert Einstein
9. There is only one theology, but there are many theologians. — Athenagoras I of Constantinople
10. If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can. — Charles Spurgeon
11. Art is so often better at theology than theology is. — Christian Wiman
12. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. — Karl Barth
13. There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology. — Karl Barth
14. Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics, — Karl Barth
15. Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies. — Luther Burbank
16. Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity. — Luther Burbank
17. Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can. — Bonaventure
18. Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess. — Charles Colson
19. all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
20. Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical. — Frederick Buechner
21. Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he’s a brilliant physicist. — Guy Consolmagno
22. Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology. — Halldór Laxness
23. The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul. — Hans Kung
24. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. — Henry Ward Beecher
25. If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both. — J. I. Packer
26. Worm theology is too high for me. — Jack Miller
27. The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith. — John Gresham Machen
28. When I say ‘God’ it is poetry and not theology. — John Haynes Holmes
29. It is better to lose your life than to waste it. — John Piper
30. Theology is the logic of the Devil. — Jose Bergamin
