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.

— W. H. Auden

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Denis Diderot

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— George Macdonald

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Christopher Morley

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

— Marquis De Sade

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

— Jeremy Taylor

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.

— Mark Twain

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.

— Henry Benjamin Whipple