Theological Ethics Quotes

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

For right is right, since God is God.

Christian ethics are seldom found save in the philosophy of some unbeliever.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so that makes me a little bit prone to use that kind of character, perhaps, just at the moment. Then there is also the fact that, having been a church member for many years, I am very aware of how much pastors enrich people's experience, people for whom they are significant. I know that it's a kind of custom of American literature and culture to slang them. I don't think there is any reason why that needs to be persisted in.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.