Abraham Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“We do not rightly understand the calling of Abraham unless we see in him the manifestation of God’s world-wide purpose of grace.”

— Clark H. Pinnock

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we…

— Richard Cecil

“The point of the Abraham-and-Isaac story isn’t that you should sacrifice your kid but that you can leave behind any notion of a god…

— Rob Bell

“For in Abraham man had learned beforehand, and had been accustomed to follow the Word of God. For Abraham, according to his faith, followed…

— The Church Fathers

“I am the God of your father Abraham' (Genesis 26:24a). God is not just identifying himself: he is also reaffirming his commitment. As the…

— Barnabe Assohoto and Samuel Ngewa

“When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? At best he…

— W. Somerset Maugham

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

— Bible

“God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son on an altar much like this one, to see who it was that Abraham loved more, Isaac…

— Cassandra Clare

“Here is one great name - Jehovah-jireh. You will find it in the story of Abraham going up into that mountain to sacrifice his…

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“This God disrupts the familiarity of the story by interrupting the sacrifice. Picture an early audience gasping. What? This God stopped the sacrifice? The…

— Rob Bell

“The Lord, therefore, was not unknown to Abraham, whose day he desired to see; nor, again, was the Lord’s Father, for he had learned…

— The Church Fathers