1,043 Quotes About Theology

I by no means say … God is nothing, the Trinity is nothing, the Word of God is nothing, … . I only show that they are not that which the illusions of theology make them[.]

To merely blank the page and vaguely assume that 'religion' is the cause of all the world's problems is, on the contrary, an allegation brought about by nothing more than cognitive lethargy; it is when unburied, unpacked, and exposed but a stale conclusion and a misdirection for the one overwhelmed by centuries of sound theology, scholarly thought, and spiritual development.

The more I learn, the less I know.

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.