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We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
R. C. Sproul
2.
We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
R. C. Sproul
We must discern our doctrine from Scripture, not from sentiment.
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The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.
N. T. Wright
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No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.
R. C. Sproul
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The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another.
Charles M. Schulz
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We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.
Paul David Tripp
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God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.
Richard Wurmbrand
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Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.
Bonaventure
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My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.
Charles Spurgeon
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The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith
John Gresham Machen
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It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
John Piper
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There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.
Theodore Hesburgh
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
R. C. Sproul
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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
J. I. Packer
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To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
Ludwig Feuerbach
20.
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
Karen Armstrong
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
Karl Barth
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Our theology must become biography.
Tim Hansel
24.
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
Os Guinness
25.
If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.
Charles Spurgeon
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
J. I. Packer
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Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
Charles Colson
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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Aside from theology and sex there is really nothing to talk about.
Harold Laski
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This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.
Dorothee Solle
33.
The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
Albert Einstein
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Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.
Kevin Vanhoozer
37.
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
Hans Kung
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Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.
Matt Chandler
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Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.
Luther Burbank
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
Robert Anton Wilson
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If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
C. S. Lewis
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Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.
Halld贸r Laxness
45.
All of our theology must eventually become biography.
Tim Hansel
47.
One man's pornography is another man's theology.
Clive Barker
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The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.
Paul David Manson
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Don't you ever change your theology to line up with your doubt.
Karen Wheaton