Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Realizing our society as it is without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it and being humane toward that society that is all that we're sure of.

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

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology and we should resist the temptation which sometimes scientists give in to to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

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.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

A theology should be like poetry which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds ' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

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

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?

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism then this encounter deeper than any theology may happen.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

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

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art poems schools theology displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the past under opposite influences.

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

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.