To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God – maybe even day after day. Maybe he’s too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide...

Some people’s theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.

Love is not first a feeling. Though the feelings come later and grow thick in the basic loam of love, they don’t constitute the sum and substance of love. Love is doing whatever good God...

For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like...

We were fortunate his brief psychic vision distracted him from what his fingertips could have told him about my face.Of course we were aware that temporary clairvoyance was a lame and unlikely explanation. The ordering...

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.

It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, ‘I couldn’t help it; the way was set.’ But think of the glory of the choice!

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, “I am.” We are ontological oxymorons.

The West, for many centuries, has been dominated by a highly rationalistic mindset that presumes to express and explain the nature of God through words. The East has only recently begun to express its understanding...

If books can transform, those have to be conscientious.

A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world–a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the Either/Or that precedes the life of faith. I’m at once a pure, beautiful,...

A God who punishes disobedience will teach us to obey and endure when it would be holy to protest and righteous to refuse to cooperate.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?”I don’t know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption,...

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.

knowledge” of angels, and he devoted far more of his massive Summa Theologica to them than to physics.

In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.

Death was far more certain than God.

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)’s into your head, a task of compression that will be achieved only at...

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

The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to...

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

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

Love isn’t self-centered, even at the supreme scale.

This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly fascinating exercises have made it appear to the lay Christian that no one...

English is so past,’ she said. ‘Sure, we need people who can write about what we do, but they don’t have to be English graduates. Theology graduates who don’t believe any of it – that...

Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else as a _citizen-of-the-cosmos and that no one is either superior or inferior to...

Go back to Socrates: “Know thyself.” For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the...

Every human being is, by definition, a theologian.

It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive of such a superlative being, though he would deny its existence in the...

Shaking his head to clear away the memories, he rose to pull the net from the water. it broke the surface just as the first rays of sunrise began to paint the edge of the...

It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant...

The answer is that their confidence was actuallh in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he would do. They had inner assurance that God would rescue them. However, they were not...

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble–because the Christ-life is...

Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life to live. … The crisis is the very mystery of our...

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

You have the chief spark of your health’s fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as ‘religion’ itself.

And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind...

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

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

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

Nothing ventured, nothing gained”. Why I do this? Well, there is a deep-rooted imperfection in me which nested in my DNA and causes a linear interference that affects my consciousness. As a result I don’t...

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.