135+ quotes by theologians

Theology means studying, practicing, and experiencing religion. It is especially a study of the relationship between God and the world. Below is our compilation of ancient biblical references, religious declarations, and theological proverbs, compiled from various sources over the years.

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quotes by theologians

-Those who grow stronger through the defeat of challenges have only the power to overcome hardship. – Albert Schweitzer

-The inner fire is going out in everybody’s life at some stage. Then an interaction with another human bursts it into flames. We all should be grateful for those who give us a new heart. – Albert Schweitzer

-The only people who will be very pleased among you are those who have been searching and found the way to serve. – Albert Schweitzer

-My brother is African, but he happens to be my younger brother by a few decades. – Albert Schweitzer

-As we work for others, life gets tougher for us, but it also gets rich and healthier. – Albert Schweitzer

-Man has lost his ability to foretell and predict. He’s going to end with demolishing the earth. – Albert Schweitzer

-A man will locate someone who wants him wherever he turns. – Albert Schweitzer

-All is simple and can be reproduced extensively as long as the all-truth relation is maintained. What matters, however, is not wisdom but truth. – Albert Schweitzer

-An example is not the most important thing for others to affect. It’s the one and only thing. – Albert Schweitzer

-The ultimate court of appeal is respect for life. – Albert Schweitzer

-I don’t believe the theological Lord who supports goodness and penalizes evil. – Albert Einstein

-Theology is superfluous. – Stephen Hawking

-Theology is the attempt to explain the mysterious in terms of the undesirable. – H. L. Mencken

-The particulars of Scripture and theology can be completely disagreeable by sincere Christians. – Billy Graham

-Theology of one individual is the humor of another man. – Robert A. Heinlein

-Theology rarely works; it’s hunting for a black cat that isn’t there in a dim basement at midnight. – Robert A. Heinlein

-It is challenging for us to establish a strong women’s theology in the Church. – Pope Francis

-One of the main responsibilities of theology is to find expressions that do not separate but unite, which do not create strife but unify, and which do not hurt but repair. – Henri Nouwen

-Theology is an awareness of God’s thoughts. – Henry Ward Beecher

-I say I’m not competent in theology. My reading and the teachings in the Bible make up most of my understanding. – Jimmy Carter

-Abruptly, my theology is that the world has been dictated but not registered. – Christopher Morley

-Evolution was not foreseen in theology. The biblical writers skipped the most important realization of all. – E. O. Wilson

-Most of the time, life is miserable. And in the middle of that tangle, theology should be lived. – Charles Caleb Colton

-Theology is important in holding faith committed to truth and justification. To humanity, all roles are important. – Pope Benedict XVI

-I don’t know whether we are much helped by the term liberation theology, which can be perceived in a very nice way. – Pope Benedict XVI

-Let’s separate faith from spirituality. The worst has always been sent by theology to heaven, while the best has been sent to hell. – Robert Green Ingersoll

-It is unfair to treat women in Muslim communities badly worldwide. The ideology that seeks to destabilize most of the world now has to be condemned by all civilized nations. – Sam Harris

-The first rebellion is against the ultimate theological injustice, the myth of God. We will be servants on the planet so long as we have a lord in heaven. – Mikhail Bakunin

-Advocates are not required for best theology; it is proved by itself. – Karl Barth

-People of different races, as you and I are, are sometimes surprised when there are so many gaps between beliefs and theology, where we can interact in general. The response is undoubted that, with common moral values, we should come together to support our country based on a shared world vision. – Mitt Romney

-The correct theology is a philosophy of God rather than an awareness of God. – Jeremy Taylor

-The theological function? The unimaginable recitation by the unspeakable to choose unthinkable people’s pockets. – Robert Anton Wilson

-The very implication that doctrine is settled and time-tested by bitter controversy is enough consequence for theology to focus on it. – Stanley Hauerwas

-Bad Religion never was obsessed with criticizing Christian people. But we still tried to highlight Christian moral ironies and inconsistencies and the more radical types of Christianity that are trying to challenge liberal secularism. – Greg Graffin

-Some churches or societies do not like my religion, nor are we associating with this community or party. I don’t know that I have been to any place where everyone was in agreement. – Franklin Graham

-It’s all we are aware of to understand our world as it is, then dogmatically inform us how we should respond to the community as it is without theology. – Vidal Sassoon

-The demon appears as a male person in all forms of theology. Indeed, the church is run by women. – Don Marquis

-As I was around 15 years of age, I started to study MC, but with a focus on theology and also philosophy. – KRS-One

-In a way, I wanted to learn religion and theology so as to study the Bible’s history. For, like 2 years, I went through all that while I was at Warners, holding a desk job. It was very deprived and at the same time, invigorating. – KRS-One

-I read any novel quite seldom. I enjoy biographies; I’ve been hearing about everybody. I respect theory and theology. – Al Sharpton

-Consider someone with a genetic understanding of The Book of British Birds’ and you have a horrible impression of what Richard Dawkins was like to learn about theology. – Terry Eagleton

-Dad has always been like this: who’s the best person for the job for this nation? Further on we might explore theology – that’s his famous quote. That’s in my DNA, I kind of think. – Jerry Falwell, Jr.

-No matter your theology of worshiping God, my duty is to tell the facts and then try to communicate as frankly and sincerely as possible with these personalities and people. – Mahershala Ali

-I eventually had an opportunity to examine why I believed what is believed by me at university in 1999. I found I had no time in my life while I was actively trying to develop my personal theology. – Mahershala Ali

-What mankind wants nowadays is not only theory or theology but a vision of belief. – Dada Vaswani

-Philosophy and theology will teach us so much about Christ, but people need to know God today. There is a distinction between having a meal and simply going through the menu. – Dada Vaswani

-I’m not interested in history, theology, or myths. History, religion, or philosophy can be viewed or clarified in alternative ways. I am trying to link the references from the past to the present. – Ashwin Sanghi

-I haven’t sanctimoniously studied theology. I learned it because I desired to know. – Mary Daly

-A paradox is what God only knows in Christian theology, and the human being cannot and must believe them. – Jill Lepore

-Theology is not only a matter of human understanding; it is a matter of changing the world. – Miroslav Volf

-In Washington, philosophy and theology possess for the first time in our country a monopoly of force. – Bill Moyers

-I have not systematically studied theology. I don’t believe I would find some topics awfully interesting, for example, canon law. – Stephen Hough

-Scientists are not reading theology nor are they reading philosophy. What they do doesn’t make a significant difference. – Lawrence M. Krauss

-Anybody who genuinely views theology recognizes that it doesn’t have to be used to describe what researchers are mystified by. – Martin Rees

-Theology must be like poetry that gets us to the conclusion of what words and ideas can do. – Karen Armstrong

-I’ve conducted multiple scientific and theological studies to seek to gain a better understanding of the human spirit or its ability. – Ian Gillan

-Technology, philosophy, and theology were once commonly undifferentiated subjects, making God’s presence a fairly average academic activity. But religion and science grew apart as the scientific method became more sophisticated, especially through the eighteenth century. – Benjamin Wittes

-While sciences, theology, and philosophy were a large philosophical hodgepodge, asserting God’s existence was a relatively common thing. Yet science and religion interact with one another in the contemporary mind. – Benjamin Wittes

-Man does not require theology, prophecy, or angels to find true concepts of morality; they only need good sense. – Baron d’Holbach

-I’m very keen on Darwinism and how it influences us daily. But I also have a strong theological and spiritual interest. – Richard Ashcroft

-I like exemplary theology. I like John Calvin, and I like Karl Barth, and I also adore Martin Luther. – Marilynne Robinson

-Afterward, I studied theology at college and when I obtained a doctorate in literature, I studied the Greek version of the gospel and the New Testament. – Jay Parini

-I undertook a theological course entitled Religion as Writing as an undergraduate. When writing can be viewed as a sort of faith, it must be accompanied by certain doubts. – Dinaw Mengestu

-I believe both Christian and Jewish traditions have plenty to share. If this egalitarian society persists and institutional anti-Semitism is left unresolved, this experience will happen deeper than any theology. – Lionel Blue

-The philosophy of the devil is theology. – Jose Bergamin

-I still enjoy the teachings of the Mormon religion; it is a perfect way to grow up. – Katherine Heigl

-A significant part of my study was my certificate in Theology. – Jeff Fortenberry

-I like to claim that I follow the connection between great ideas and the reality of human beings, between theology and reality. – Krista Tippett

-You can be destroyed by depression. It can likewise be a rewarding spiritual experience. It’s an essential part of my philosophy and my theology that life is not flawless. I had to accept all sorts of defects, sadness, and difficulties. – Krista Tippett

-I was a theology and philosophy student at a university. 2 years in a row, I won the divinity award in my school. Perhaps because just ten of us were there, but nevertheless. – Ben Lloyd-Hughes

-I am very interested in the fields of science, theology, and ethics with a science background. – Alan Lightman

-Whether or not you actually follow religious theology and accept Jesus Christ as the Saviour is what makes you a true Christian. – Walter Martin

-Over the years, and even now, the Bible and the theology of Christianity have led to defending the crusades, segregation, abuse against homosexuals, and the execution of abortion doctors. – Amy Waldman

-Today, humanities have to be protected against the invasions of physical science, as they had to combat the theological invasion. – Irving Babbitt

-Theology always has moral consequences, and religion is always subject to theology. – David Novak

-If the President uses so much theological and moral terminology, so let’s use this to discuss the War in Iraq seriously. And it’s never been achieved. – Jim Wallis

-Theology is interminable because you can learn it without knowing anything. – Susan Hill

-I’m obsessed with and believe in god and theology. – Sarah Wayne Callies

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