When I was in seminary,” Father Edward had told other guests around the table when he was purchasing his books, “my spiritual director told me not to read theology. ‘Read novels,’ he said, and I have.

Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

Science is the true theology

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.”

The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology

In the devil’s theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrongs

Sunday school: a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind

One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.

Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard, you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants?