Theology Quotes

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Dualism is a truncated metaphysic.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.