1,043 Quotes About Theology

We should sooner consider ourselves sinless before we ever consider Jesus sinful. As absurd as the former sounds, the latter is much more absurd.

The denial of hell, we should note, is one of the very first heresies. We call this the doctrine of annihilationism.

No matter what you say (or write) about the early chapters of Genesis, you are in a lot of trouble with a lot of people.

Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult organizations are degenerate parodies of forgotten religions.

i once heard the survivorsof a colony of antsthat had been partiallyobliterated by a cow s footseriously debatingthe intention of the godstowards their civilization

No matter what our different circumstances and vocations may be, every woman is a theologian. We all have an understanding about who God is and what he has done. The question is whether or not our views are based on what he has revealed in his Word about himself. And yet many women are either turned off or intimidated by doctrine” (p. 53).

And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion.

But which one is right? The real gods? The truth?' I asked.Balthazar smiled gently, as if speaking to a very slow child. 'That is not for us to judge. Each of us believes what seems true enough to him, and allows others the same luxury. Who can know what happened in the dim dawn of the world? We can barely decide what to have for breakfast without a theological debate - the Nurian law is polite disagreement. We do our best with how the world appears to our own eyes.

I stand by my pre–Van Houten analysis of the Dutch Tulip Man. Not a con man, but not as rich as he was letting on.