Theologian Quotes

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

Satan is an astute theologian.

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

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.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.

Not everyone can be a theologian, but everyone should know some theology.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

If the person laughs well, they are a good person.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.