1,043 Quotes About Theology

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

What all ethical theories critically lack, Christianity uniquely offers: the perfect, ethical example. Christians are not restricted solely to abstract principles for ethical conduct, because in Jesus we have a model for good living.

Yet however much he read, there were whole categories of books the mature Emerson would not read. He would not read theology or academic controversy. He wanted original accounts, first-hand experience, personal witness. He would read your poem or your novel, but not your opinion of someone else’s poem or novel, let alone your opinion of someone else’s opinion…

Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes.

We are put together in such a way that although we can be pushed and pulled and drowsied by flickering images, we cannot be satisfied by them; we know too much even in oblivion. Fallow knowledge troubles our sleep. We lie under the prickling enchantment of the image carved into our hearts, which is stronger than the counterspell and can never be quite scratched out.

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.