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Theology Quotes

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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

Authors on Theology Quotes: Gilbert K. Chesterton R. C. Sproul Karl Barth Charles Spurgeon Ralph Waldo Emerson C. S. Lewis Robert H. Schuller Tim Hansel Bill Johnson Luther Burbank Matt Chandler Paul David Tripp J. I. Packer Carl E. Olson Harold Laski Robert Green Ingersoll Athenagoras I of Constantinople Martin Luther Jorge Luis Borges Thomas Paine Bonaventure Charles Colson Kevin Vanhoozer Gabriel Fackre Voltaire Maximus the Confessor Elbert Hubbard William Ames Martyn Julia Ward Howe Paul Gordan Hans Kung Charles M. Schulz
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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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Theology without practice is the theology of demons
Maximus the Confessor

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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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Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.
Bonaventure

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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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My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.
Charles Spurgeon

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Theology is unnecessary.
Stephen Hawking

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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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The cross alone is our theology.
Martin Luther

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To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
Ludwig Feuerbach

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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
J. I. Packer

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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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Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.
Oswald Spengler

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all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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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

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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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Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
Os Guinness

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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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Science is the true theology.
Thomas Paine

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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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Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
Charles Colson

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Aside from theology and sex there is really nothing to talk about.
Harold Laski

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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
Hans Kung

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This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.
Dorothee Solle

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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

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Academic theology is false.
Alexander Schmemann

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Worm theology is too high for me.
Jack Miller

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Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.
Matt Chandler

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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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There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.
Athenagoras I of Constantinople

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Theology without love simply is very bad theology.
Paul David Tripp

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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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All of our theology must eventually become biography.
Tim Hansel

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Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.
Halldór Laxness

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Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.
Luther Burbank

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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

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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Kenneth Lee Pike

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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.
William Ames