Glen Duncan Quotes

Our God is a forgiving God.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.

Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.