Quotes about Theology
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
- Henri Nouwen
Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God
- AW Tozer
Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.
- AW Tozer
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
- Ann Voskamp
Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There must be must be a first mover existing above all — and this we call God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
- Tony Campolo
Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
- Tony Campolo
What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
- Rob Bell
How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?
- Timothy Keller