Quotes about theology

"Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it."

Auden, W. H. on theology   

"Theology is a science of mind applied to God."

Beecher, Henry Ward on theology   

"Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged."

Beecher, Henry Ward on theology   

"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

Diderot, Denis on theology   

"It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide."

Erasmus, Desiderius on theology   

"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on theology   

"Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on theology   

"Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken."

Macdonald, George on theology   

"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."

Mencken, H. L. on theology   

"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."

Morley, Christopher on theology   

"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."

Sade, Marquis De on theology
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"The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge."

Taylor, Jeremy on theology   

"There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it."

Twain, Mark on theology   

"As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost."

Whipple, Henry Benjamin on theology