Theology Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old theology quotes, theology sayings, and theology proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. H. L. Mencken
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics. Frank Tipler
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. Karl Barth
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received. Paul Tillich
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God. Karl Barth
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure. Ambrose Bierce
Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits. Israel Shenker
Theology made no provision for evolution. E. O. Wilson
Theology in religion is what poisons are in food. Napoleon Bonaparte
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action. J.I. Packer
Theology is the science of the divine lie. Mikhail Bakunin
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theology is anthropology. Anselm Feuerbach
Theology is the logic of the devil. Jose Bergamin
The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches. Jeremy Bentham
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. Julia Ward Howe
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both. J.I. Packer
Theology is classified superstition. Elbert Hubbard
Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God. Herbert McCabe
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains. Gilbert K. Chesterton