1,043 Quotes About Theology

God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.

The best of a human being is still a human being.

The danger of refusing to reflect upon the psychological dynamics of faith and belief is that what we feel to be self evidently true, for psychological reasons, might be, upon inspection, highly questionable, intellectually or morally. Too often, as we all know, the 'feeling of rightness' trumps sober reflection and moral discernment. Further, we are often unwilling to listen to others until we are, to some degree, psychologically open to persuasion. The Parable of the Sower comes to mind.

Lastly I’d say this – true religion, as a part of Neuroscience – a study of the mind – is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind has. In some form or other, it is an evolutionary necessity of the human mind, not a luxury.

He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.

Giv Herren sin Ære, giv Kongen sin Told.

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?

To borrow the language of Augustine, God is not only superior summo meo -- beyond my utmost heights -- but also interior intimo meo -- more inward to me than my inmost depths.

I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.