Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.

A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.

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

Matthew 10:34“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

We are fools, not by our religious beliefs,however by what we are lead to believe by those who control what information we receive

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!