We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.