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My plan is to read English literature, philosophy and theology in Galway, Ireland, where my late mother came from and where I`m also a citizen.

- Martin Sheen

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn`t talking. He wanted me to go to theology school-I didn`t want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

- Wyclef Jean

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn`t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can`t give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

- Roger Ebert

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn`t know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

- Sun Myung Moon

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let`s use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

- Jim Wallis

They understood the theology of their bodies, ... The call to love as God loves is stamped right into our very bodies.

- Christopher West

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

- Christopher Morley

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

- Bill Moyers

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

- Alan Oster

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

- Alexander Eliot

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

- Allan Pope

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

- Allen Rossum

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

- Anders Aslund

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

- Andrew Greeley

I don`t know any more about theology than jackrabbit does about ping pong, but I`m on my way to glory.

- Andrew Marone

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

- Anton Situmeang

It is ever thus; where Theology enchains the soul, the Tyrant enslaves the body

- Antonio Cue

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost

- Ari Rosenthal

If your theology feeds the killers and if millions of your members support the killers, even though they`re a minority, you have, in my opinion, a terrorist organization,

- Athena Hrevatis

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.

- Bertrand Russell

What has `theology` ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has `theology` ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that `theology` is a subject at all?

- Richard Dawkins

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful

- Martin Luther

Worm theology is too high for me

- Jack Miller

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

- John Burroughs

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church`s agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism

- Michael Scott Horton

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

- Thomas Paine