Michael Horton Quotes

It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which the highest inquiry into meaning and ethics and beauty coincides with the largest-scale imagination of the nature of reality itself.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

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

Theology is anthropology.

Since many, however, of those who profess to believe in Christ differ from each other, not only in small and trifling matters, but also on subjects of the highest importance, as, e.g., regarding God, or the Lord Jesus Christ, or the Holy Spirit; and not only regarding these, but also regarding others which are created existences, viz., the powers and the holy virtues; it seems on that account necessary first of all to fix a definite limit and to lay down an unmistakable rule regarding each one of these, and then to pass to the investigation of other points.

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all …. whether there exists a God or not ... men's moral duties will always be the same so long as they possess their own nature

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

God has many names, though He is only one Being.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

The problem's name is God.

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

It saddens me that in many churches today, you hardly hear the name of Jesus being mentioned. Instead, you hear psychology being taught. You hear motivational teachings. You hear 'doing, doing, doing', 'vision, vision, vision' or 'calling, calling, calling'. You hear very little of Jesus Christ and His finished work being taught. Is this what Christianity is about? Your doing, your calling and your vision?

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.