Theological Concepts Quotes

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept.

As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.

Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

I think God does a lot of things in different ways.

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.

Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.

Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.

There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.