1,043 Quotes About Theology

Toe sien ekdat die ou tannie met die swak teologie wat drie weeskinders in haar plakkershuis inneem, meer doen as sewe goeie teoloë . . .

I believe that any God worth believing in believes in me too

When the Lord's request comes, will remove all other demands.

If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all.

God is the placebo for the masses, it may solve trivial problems of society, but to treat the big issues, what is required is actual medicine, that is, actual, tangible human intervention.

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the flesh-Eager to net the soul before it wake,That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake.George MacDonald

O, profound dichotomy... For when we are as nothing... It is then that we are gods... * John Lars Zwerenz

To doubt the existence of God is the greatest delusion.

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.