Theology Quotes

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.