1,043 Quotes About Theology

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

There are ever further questions for intelligence pushing up towards a fuller understanding and ever further doubts urging us to a fuller truth.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy One is Holy Father.