Huston Smith Quotes

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

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

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

Our Lord Christ has surnamed Himself Truth, not Custom.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

The fact is you cannot talk about the love of God. The love of God has no meaning whatsoever unless you understand the judgment of God that all of us deserve.

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.

Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is God Himself. Having all power in His hands, He laid down His life for people who deserved God's justice, not His mercy.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.