Quotes about Theology
And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they were incorruptible, if not good at all, there were nothing in them to be corrupted. For corruption injures, but unless it diminished goodness, it could not injure.
— St. Augustine
Accordingly we say that there is no unchangeable good but the one, true, blessed God; that the things which He made are indeed good because from Him, yet mutable because made not out of Him, but out of nothing.
— St. Augustine
For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name "evil."
— St. Augustine
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.
— Charles Spurgeon
The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
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
There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.
— Ellen White
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
— Pope John Paul II
You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.
— Albert Mohler
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .
— John Piper