Theological Insight Quotes

Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.

To know God's name is to know God.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

All of Scripture is for us but not all of Scripture is to us.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone but only by those who are qualified to understand them with informed intelligence. The depth of the divine Scriptures is such that not only the illiterate and uninitiated have difficulty understanding them, but also the educated and the gifted.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.