Theological Tension Quotes

I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.

The doctrine of free will is always in danger of robbing God of his honor

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.

My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I believe them both. I believe them both. I believe take up your cross and deny yourself and follow me, and I believe come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. They are different sides of the same thing.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.

God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.