John Wesley Quotes

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.

Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves.

I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary

For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the telos toward which God is drawing the whole of creation, then any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming together in one Person, that by one and the same conception and birth might spring our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom was present both true Godhead for the performance of mighty works and true Manhood for the endurance of sufferings.

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said 'No.'

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.