Quotes about Theology

In one of his letters to Erasmus, Luther said, "YOUR thoughts of God are too human."

If Scripture teaches the imputation of sin, we should not stumble when we find it affirming the imputation of righteousness.

False theology makes God's foreknowledge of our believing the cause of His election to salvation; whereas, God's election is the cause, and our believing in Christ is the effect .

Charnock said, "Water and fire may as well kiss each other, and live together without quarreling and hissing, as the holy will of God and the unregenerate heart of a fallen creature.

Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

the world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian

One way of judging the quality of theologies," he explains, "is to see what sort of devotion they produce."32

the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology.