Theology Quotes Quotes

“You get healthy by playing sports, not by screaming at the television. Likewise, you become divine by practicing religion, not by yelling scripture. And how do you practice religion? By loving your neighbor, instead of asking for some identification to authenticate that they are white, straight and catholic americans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“If you want to remember useful things, you need to invest in long-term memory. It takes energy and effort.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I got involved in philosophical, psychological, theological and mystical works. You can easily tell why I behave the way I do. I have seen through the veil of all illusions.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If you take away different religions or opinions, then the world will become a boring place. People have to keep arguing to make life worth living.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“You can have an arranged marriage, but having children is optional.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“It is wise to seek knowledge, rather than living in ignorance. I think ignorance should also be labelled as a disease, simply because it is so difficult to cure it.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If your god has a biography or autobiography, that's a good sign that he's no different from you.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“It's not fear that's holding you back, but it's your lack of obedience to your heart.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Fanatics are everywhere, in religion, sports and politics. The majority are ready and willing to die for their beliefs. Even in love there are martyrs.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The brain is an organ, it also needs to be trained and nourished. Cultivate your mind.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“His rest is gift, not transaction. Whether you are actively working hard to crowbar your life into smoothness ("labor") or passively finding yourself weighed down by something outside your control ("heavy laden"), Jesus Christ's desire that you find rest, that you come in out of the storm, outstrips even your own.”
― Dane Ortlund

“But the dominant note left ringing in our ears after reading the Gospels, the most vivid and arresting element of the portrait, is the way the Holy Son of God moves toward, touches, heals, embraces, and forgives those who least deserve it yet truly desire it.”
― Dane Ortlund

“In other words, we don't feel the weight of our sin because of: our sin.”
― Dane Ortlund

“It is the most counterintuitive aspect of Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once w begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgment that we never will.”
― Dane Ortlund

“Our goal is that our kids would leave the house at eighteen and be unable to live the rest of their lives believing that their sins and sufferings repel Christ.”
― Dane Ortlund

“A correct understanding of the triune God is not that of a Father whose central disposition is judgment and a Son whose central disposition is love. The heart of both is one and the same; this is, after all, one God, not two. Theirs is a heart of redeeming love, not compromising justice and wrath but beautifully satisfying justice and wrath.”
― Dane Ortlund

“The yearning heart of God delivers and redelivers sinners who find themselves drowning in the sewage of their life, twenty-nine chapters deep, in need of a rescue that they cannot even begin on their own, let alone complete.”
― Dane Ortlund

“We can be immoral dead people, or we can be moral dead people. Either way, we're dead.”
― Dane Ortlund

“If a PhD shows the completion of education or a course, then you don't need it in theology. You don't need it to know God either.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Inform all theologians that they don't need a PhD to know God.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If Paul was not reacting to a legalistic Judaism which understood salvation to be dependent ultimately on human achievement, then what was he reacting to? Sanders himself saw Paul’s reaction to be essentially confused. But James Dunn argued that the new perspective shed light on Paul’s theology by allowing us to see that its polemical thrust was directed not against the idea of achieving God’s acceptance by the merit of personal achievement (good works), but against the Jewish intention to safeguard the privilege of covenant status from being dissipated or contaminated by non-Jews. Paul was reacting primarily against the exclusivism which he himself had previously fought to maintain. In particular, he was reacting against the conviction (shared by most other Christian Jews) that ‘works of the law’, such as (or particularly) circumcision and laws of clean and unclean, continued to prescribe the terms of covenant relationship for Gentiles as well as Jews. It was in and from this conflict that Paul’s doctrine of justification by faith alone achieved its classic expression (Gal. 2:1–21). (p.10)”
― James D.G. Dunn, The Cambridge Companion to St Paul

“Faith explained is faith lost.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“If theology is to contribute anything good to the world, then it must shift its focus from the study of scriptures to the outspoken advocacy of religious integration. And if theologians cannot be the forerunners of religious integration, then such theology isn't worth a penny.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“We need church reform, but not a new theological system, not a new church denomination, not new interpretations of scriptures, not new prophetic perspectives. We need reformation to return to the true Gospel and live it out in sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”
― Brother Pedro

“Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“BEATITUDES

My God, this is staggering, Woah! Immense. This epiphany quivers me as I write. How powerful, nonpareil, & superordinary is your Word. The BEATITUDES for instance, is a saintly archetype of direct investment, --seed planting & a sure-way harvest.

May I liken it a bit to a spiritual trading --one in which, to get this-- you do this. Simple, practical & yet so effective. The only ingredient required for this is aBsOluTe OBEDIENCE.

Meanwhile, all of humanity-- everyone actively, passively, knowingly or otherwise is a trader at this heavenly market of life. --©Bright Heaven's”
― Bright Heaven's

“The darkness of evil may have its hour, but the eternal day of goodness will always prevail.”
― John Lars Zwerenz , The Mystery of Wycliff Manor

“When christianity becomes a code of morality, an ethic of “right or wrong,” then you can be sure that we have ceased following Jesus faithfully, have abandoned relationship with God and each other, and have begun the futile search for “the ghost of perfection.”
― Joseph Haward, The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“God’s MINISTERIAL training is quite tougher than MILITARY training.”
― Wisdom Ogbe

“Christians wanted to affirm certain beliefs. But in some instances, if those affirmations were pressed to an extreme, they did not allow Christians to affirm other beliefs that they or other Christians also wanted to affirm. We have seen, for example, that some Christians wanted to affirm that Christ was human, but they did so to such an extent that they refused to acknowledge he was divine. Others wanted to affirm that he was divine and did so to such an extent that they refused to acknowledge he was human. Others tried to get around the problem by claiming that he was two different things: part of him was human and part of him was divine; but this solution brought division and disunity instead of harmony and oneness. Others wanted to affirm that since there can be only one God, Jesus could be divine only if he himself was that one God come to earth. But that solution ended up causing Christians to say that Jesus begot himself as the father to his own son, along with other equally confusing formulations. Some superscholars of the day such as Origen tried to resolve the problems in more sophisticated ways, but these views also led to ideas that were later deemed objectionable, [...] Throughout all these debates, we see Christian thinkers trying to figure it all out, wanting to make certain affirmations that they took to be gospel truth. [...] Eventually a Christology emerged that affirmed at one and the same time aspects of what opposing heresies affirmed, while refusing to deny what they denied. This led to a significantly refined but highly paradoxical understanding of how it is that Jesus could be God.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee