Wendell Berry Quotes

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

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

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

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.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.

In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man's salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race.

The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

We have nothing in our account but zeroes! And yet, because of His great love, God forgave us our astronomical debt.

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

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.

The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn!