A sour religion is the devil's religion.
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.
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.
Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.
Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.
Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.
Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.
The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.
Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.
He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
If the person laughs well, they are a good person.
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
