Quotes about Theology
Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and forgive; he can do the one just because he can do the other.
- Herman Bavinck
Theology leads through soteriology to eschatology.
- Herman Bavinck
Eschatology lives in the heart of all.
- Herman Bavinck
Without God all things go wrong, both in our living and in our thinking. The denial of the existence of God means the elevation of the creature into the place of God.
- Herman Bavinck
Theology is about God and should reflect a doxological tone that glorifies him.
- Herman Bavinck
Without faith in the existence, the revelation, and the knowability of God, no religion is possible.
- Herman Bavinck
The plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.
- Herman Bavinck
From the start of its labors dogmatic theology is shrouded in mystery; it stands before God the incomprehensible One.
- Herman Bavinck
Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.
- Oswald Chambers
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
- Stanley Hauerwas
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A church may have the bones of organization and sound theology. It may have the body of a large membership. But, if the breath of the Holy Spirit is not on it and in it, then it is only Sardis, having a name to be alive but dead.
- Vance Havner