1,043 Quotes About Theology

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?

We believe that the creation of a woman was the crowning and final and most glorified moment of human creation. That we start with light & dark and land & sea and we move through fish & fowl & beasts of the field and we get to Adam and it's still not good enough. And only when Eve was created -- this is our theology [...] -- that is our theology, that the crowning creation and the glory of the human experience came with the creation of Eve.

When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.

A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.

Even though God could create all kinds of things, he could hardly create himself before he had a "self" to create with. So there was only one possibility left: God had always existed. But she had already rejected that possibility! Everything that existed had to have a beginning.

We tend to believe that God's commands are given to us merely for our own sake. But this is not true. As those created in the image of God, our very nature as image bearers explains the reasons behind God's commands.