Theology Quotes - Page 15

Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.

Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)

Robin R. Meyers

Matthew 10:34“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Anonymous

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Johann Baptist Metz

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

There is only one way of salvation. Men are sinful rebels against God, by nature, enemies of holiness and He who is holy. Dominated by sin, ruled over by evil, we are helpless to even drag ourselves toward the true and holy God, even if we wanted to! We are dead in sin. "But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love which he loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ" (Ephesians 2:4-5). The Father, in His infinite mercy and grace, saved us in Christ Jesus.

The Christian has been drawn unto Christ. Those who wish to boast in having something to do with their salvation, or who insist that the final decision lays with man, resist the clear meaning of Christ's words, "draw." But this is a wondrous term. It is beautiful to hear. Drawn in love. Drawn in mercy. Drawn unto the one who died in my place. It is sovereign action, undertaken by the one who holds the entire universe by His power. It is an irresistible drawing, most definitely, but is a drawing of grace. The one drawing loves the one who is being drawn. And those drawn can never be thankful enough to God who brought them out of darkness into the marvelous light of Christ.

How can we believe in Christ Jesus, without reading the Holy Bible?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith in God is full assurance of hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I count everything loss, to gain anything under the power of grace in Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If we longer rely on God, it means we have rejected the rule of a righteous Ruler.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

The wisdom of God is what we ought to seek.

Lailah Gifty Akita

For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

Who can we claim to know God, and deny him by our actions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Godliness is a devotion to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in the human psyche that act as fuel in daily survival. If you try to take away some hungry man’s stale bread, he would fight back, but if you give him something healthier and more substantial than the bread, then he would throw away the bread himself and accept your better food. The same is for God.

If we desire to be close to Spirit of God, we desire to dwell in clean soul with a clean body.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth of Christ Jesus, Son of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great faith in God is the grace of His glory.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The holy faith is the fear of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The search for the Divine Being is the grace to seek the divine life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Search for the Divine Being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The God of Hope!

Lailah Gifty Akita

If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Glory to God in the holy highest heavens.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If we read the Holy Scripture, we shall grow in our knowledge of Jesus Christ, the Saviour. And be filled with the fullness of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To delight in God is to desire Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Free gift of grace is the great mercy of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace is a free gift from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Just as is child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, so is grace freely given by God, in sacred moment of salvation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every man needs God's mercy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Truth is true testimony of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Without the knowledge of God, we are in complete darkness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must submit to God's righteous rule.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To doubt the existence of God is the greatest delusion.

The greatest KNOWLEDGE is the knowledge of GOD.

The Holy God gives grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A man only misfortune is to forsake his Maker.

Education without the knowledge of the Holy One is the darkest doom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hate sin. Love righteousness of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The thought of a man is futile. But the word of God is flawless.

Without the knowledge of God ,we perish.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The city of God is filled with glorious things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The invisible God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Might God, Eternal Father.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The mystery of the gospel is inexpressible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God is the Wonderful Counselor.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatness of God knows no end.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith is the knowledge of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy”—Ken Ammi

Charles Baudelaire

If we neither regard the deeds nor respect the works of God, it leads to rebellion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To reject the Word of God is forsake the holy grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well.

Roberta C. Bondi

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