Quotes about Theology

If God were a theory, the study of theology would be the way to understand Him. But God is alive and in need of love and worship. This is why thinking of God is related to our worship. In an analogy of artistic understanding, we sing to Him before we are able to understand Him. We have to love in order to know. Unless we learn how to sing, unless we know how to love, we will never learn to understand Him.

Theology starts with dogmas, philosophy begins with problems. Philosophy sees the problem first, theology has the answer in advance

In trying to understand Jewish existence a Jewish philosopher must look for agreement with the men of Sinai as well as with the people of Auschwitz.

Philosophy of religion is involved in a polarity; like an ellipse it revolves around two foci: philosophy and religion.

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world.

Holy theology arises from knees bent before the mystery of the divine child in the stable. Without the holy night, there is no theology.

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church.

When spirituality is divorced from theology it speedily deteriorates into sentimentality.

Spirituality is inseparable from theology. Indeed, it could be defined as the living out of theology.

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.