Theology Quotes - Page 4

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Christ is the Lesson as well as the Teacher.

She had experimented with Wicca eight years ago, found that her spells did not produce the desired results of making her every bully bald and fat, and threw it in the corner of her soul as effete and impractical, as she had with a series of other theological outfits.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." Paul Tillich

Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
- However bright your wits -
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house.

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in.

I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

Tema 'Boga' ne dispenzira teologa od njegove biografije. To ga razlikuje od stručnjaka koji se bavi znanošću o religiji.

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)

No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.

I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters.

Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.