Quotes about Theology
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
- GK Chesterton
If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
- JI Packer
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.
- Gregory of Nazianzus
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
- St. John Chrysostom
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
- St. Augustine
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.
- Philip Yancey
Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
- Martin Luther
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
- Kevin Vanhoozer
After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
- Martin Luther
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
- RC Sproul
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
- GK Chesterton