1,043 Quotes About Theology

The greatest obscuration of the words of the Lord, as of all true teachers, comes from those who give themselves to interpret rather than do them. Theologians have done more to hide the gospel of Christ than any of its adversaries.

As a result of overly reactive posturing toward an unbelieving world we sometimes breed our own worst understandings of the Bible.

The gods were simply those beings that inhabited that space, forces of creation and destruction, love and hatred, nurturing and neglect, light and dark, cold and warm... they opposed one another and complemented one another; they were fundamental truths.

Anarchy can only ever be a temporary state. As with other creatures on this planet, it is human nature to crave the security of creating hierarchical structures. Our major religions are based on the same concept. Even the Antichrist has an antithetical hierarchy in Hell.

Eternal torture is nowhere suggested in the Old Testament Scriptures, and only a few statements in the New Testament can be so misconstrued as to appear to teach it; and these are found either among the symbolisms of Revelation, or among the parables and dark sayings of our Lord, which were not understood by the people who heard them (Luke 8:10) and which seem to be but little better comprehended today. [...]

Evangelical theology is heretical if it is only creative and unworthy if it is only repetitious ... before one can address the contemporary scene one must know what the moderns are thinking and saying and doing.

Not saying fashion and outward appearance count for nothing. They're just not very important to people of substance.

The gospel is not a quaint story about who Jesus was and what he did; it’s a declaration about who Jesus is even now, an announcement that creates the reality of which it speaks.

Trust in the gods, They will supply? Hardly. He wondered suddenly if it was as hard for the gods to have faith in Ingrey as it was for him to have faith in Them, and a weird wild urge to show Them how it should be done swept him for a moment.