Theological Concept Quotes

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

God wanted us to choose to love him.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

God shall be all in all.

A trinity of persons cannot exist in the divine essence whether the persons be supposed to be finite or infinite

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

Truth is the edict of God.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, the Antichrist has to be Jewish. The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.