Quotes about Theology
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
- William Faulkner
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
- John Piper
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
- RC Sproul
For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.
- RC Sproul
If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
- AW Tozer
A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.
- AW Tozer
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
- CS Lewis
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.
- Charles Spurgeon
Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.
- J. Gresham Machen
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
- Philip Yancey
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas