The study of the nature of the divine, theology, is taught as an academic discipline.
Theologians employ a variety of analytical and persuasive techniques to assist readers justify, evaluate, and support a range of religious subjects. A theologian may be able to research the essence of divinity or have a deeper understanding of religious tradition through the study of theology.
Theology Quotes On Christianity
Christians contend that God's basic nature is one of love for creation. Check out what theologists have to say on Christianity!
“Modern man has lost any sense of Gods nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.” — R.C. Sproul.
“Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.” — Martin Luther.
“The doctrine of the Trinity is what basically distinguishes the Christian doctrine of God as Christian…” — Karl Barth.
“[One] objection to the study of theology is that it deceives Christians from simple faith in the Bible. The underlying premise of this objection is that believing is good and knowing is bad. But in fact the Bible lauds both believing and knowing.” — Rev. 2:23; Matt. 22:37.
“The cross is not an isolated individual aspect of theology, but is itself the foundation of that theology. The cross both dominates and permeates all true Christian theology, with its thread being woven throughout the entirety of its fabric.” — Gerald Hawthorne.
“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.” ― Mark Twain, 'Notebook'.
“In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--" ― C.S. Lewis, 'Mere Christianity'.
“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.” ― Hans Urs von Balthasar, 'Unless You Become Like This Child'
“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” ― Billy Graham.
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” ― Shannon L. Alder.
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” ― C.S. Lewis.
“In truth, there was only one Christian and he died on the cross.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche.
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” ― G.K. Chesterton, 'What's Wrong With The World'.
More Theology Quotes
Check out some interesting theology quotes from famous theologists.
“The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more childlike will be our faith.” ― John Gresham Machen.
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.” ― Benjamin Franklin Wade.
“If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones!” ― C.S. Lewis.
“What you are is God's 0gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” ― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer.
“Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.” ― Henry Ward Beecher.
“No man that has not the vitals of theology is capable of going beyond a fool in philosophy.” ― Baxter, Richard, 'The Reformed Pastor,' Chapter 1, Section 1.
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak;” ― Robert Jastrow.
“Clearly, theology is impossible without faith; it is part of the very process of faith, which seeks an ever deeper understanding of God's self-disclosure culminating in Christ.” ― Pope Francis.
“Mission is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exist because worship doesn't.” ― John Piper.
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” ― Alan Wilson Watts.
“When you separate theology from ministry, you liberate your ministry and have better theology.” ― Andy Stanley.
“What God wants from us is not only doctrinal faithfulness but our love day by day. Not, in theory, mind you, but in practice.” ― Frances Schaeffer, 'The Church Before The Watching World'.
“Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.” ― John Piper.
“The doctrine of election is the sum of the gospel because of all words that can be said or heard it is the best: that God elects man; that God is for man to the one who loves in freedom.” — Karl Barth.
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him” ― John Piper.
“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
“Studying holiness must lead to repentance. Studying salvation must lead to gratitude. Studying the end times must lead to hope. We need to study to show ourselves improved, that is, bearing the fruit of the Spirit.” ― Sproul, R.C. Jr.
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinking logical positivist you ever saw right now.” ― Flannery O'Connor.
“Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.” ― Desmond Tutu.
“He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he’s moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain.” ― Randy Alcorn.
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.” ― John Calvin.
Theology Quotes On Love
Love means affection. Check out what theologists have to say about love.
“The determination of the elect consists in the fact that he allows himself to be loved by God—to live as one from whom all eternity God in His incomprehensible and unmerited goodness did not will to renounce, and therefore will not renounce.” — Karl Barth.
“Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.” — Donald Barnhouse.
“Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved…” ― C.S. Lewis, 'The Problem Of Pain'.
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” — Augustine.
“If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.” — Dwight L. Moody.
“In the New Testament, love is more of a verb than a noun. It has more to do with acting than with feeling. The call to love is not so much a call to a certain state of feeling as it is to a quality of action.” — R. C. Sproul.
“For instance, God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us. It takes no character to love people who are lovely and loving to you.” — Rick Warren.
“The world is not a playground; it is a school-room. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.” — Henry Drummond.
Theology Quotes On Christ
Check out what theologists have to say about the Son of God.
“God chose Jesus to teach us our thesis is that God's eternal will is the election of Jesus Christ.” — Karl Barth.
“All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass -- Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.” — Alexander, Archibald.
“Revelation in fact does not differ from the person of Jesus Christ nor from the reconciliation accomplished in Him. To say revelation is to say ‘the Word became flesh.” — Karl Barth.
