Top 197 Theologians Quotes & Sayings

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.

It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers.

No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

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

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.