Quotes about Belief

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

Everyone who must contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously. Only faith is to be taken seriously; and if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, that suffices for the devil to have lost his game.

Faith is rather a freedom, a permission. It is permitted to be so—that the believer in God's Word may hold on to this Word in everything, in spite of all that contradicts it.

The greatest hindrance to faith is again and again just the pride and anxiety of our human hearts.

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.

He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God--before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.