David Edward Jenkins Quotes

Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

What God hath wrought?

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

I think often that God is guiding me.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?