Theology Quotes - Page 28

• How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.

  Donald Murray

  Writing, Tasks, Amusement

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• Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Humanity, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1406, Delphi Classics

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

  Pope Pius XII

  Suicide, Blessed, Persistence

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• The world's theology is easy to define.
  It is the view that human beings are basically good,
  that no one is really lost,
  that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Jesus, Views, World

  James Montgomery Boice (1986). “Foundations of the Christian Faith”, p.674, InterVarsity Press

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• I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Kids, Glasses

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• Mission is 'the mother of theology'.

  Martin Kahler

  Mother, Missions

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• Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Secret, Attention

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.

  James K. Baxter

  Christian, Church, Inward

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• Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wages, Done, Pestilence

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• A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Religious, Persons

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• I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moral, Rhetoric

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2730, Delphi Classics

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• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

  Luther Burbank

  Book, Religion, Judgment

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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• In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Black, Taught

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.4, Book Tree

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• The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Essence, Ideas

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.249, Knopf

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• I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.

  Thomas Huxley

  Too Much, Way, Possibility

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much Western theology has devoted itself. This is a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, moment-to-moment act of supreme consciousness. It is a choosing and a re-choosing every instant. It is ongoing creation. Conscious creation. Creation with a purpose. It is using the tools of creation we have discussed, and using them with awareness and sublime intention.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Self

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.112, Penguin

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• The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Bible, Believe, Views

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• Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Father, Moving

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.154, Sahitya Akademi

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• Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Religious, Men

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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

  Understanding, Should, Disciple

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

  John Piper

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

  Daniel Bell

  Break Up, Breakup, Religious

  Daniel Bell (2008). “The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Basic Books

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• For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

  Mike McCurry

  Social Activism, Progressive, 1960s

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

  Bill Johnson

  People, Needs, Justify

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