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
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Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.Frank Tipler
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.Karl Barth
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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
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.Karl Barth
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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure.Ambrose Bierce
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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
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Theology made no provision for evolution.E. O. Wilson
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Theology in religion is what poisons are in food.Napoleon Bonaparte
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All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.J.I. Packer
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Theology is the science of the divine lie.Mikhail Bakunin
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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Theology is anthropology.Anselm Feuerbach
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Theology is the logic of the devil.Jose Bergamin
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The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.Jeremy Bentham
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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.Julia Ward Howe
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.J.I. Packer
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Theology is classified superstition.Elbert Hubbard
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Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.Herbert McCabe
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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.Gilbert K. Chesterton