Quote by Matthew W. Bates Download Open image ““gift-giving, or grace, in the ancient world always required reciprocation.”” — Matthew W. Bates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic His giving, by grace, through faith, and this is not… — St. Nicholas of Myra Copy Share Image
The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“And I feel certain there must be a second set of laws, inscrutable but real, that governs exactly how much a particular individual can… — Karen Russel Copy Share Image
“For the gifts of Nature belong to good and evil alike; but the proper gift of the elect is grace—that is, love— and they… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“The gospel is not just a story about Jesus; it is a transformative story because the gospel unleashes God’s saving power for humanity.” — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“The Greek word pistis, generally rendered “faith” or “belief,” as it pertains to Christian salvation, quite simply has little correlation with “faith” and “belief”… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“Human salvation is directed toward God's intention to restore individuals, communities, and the world as the kingdom of God continues to break into history.… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“Jesus proclaimed the one gospel by announcing the inauguration of the kingdom of God as well as its anticipated culmination” — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“the gospel is the power-releasing story of Jesus’s life, death for sins, resurrection, and installation as king, but that story only makes sense in… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“With regard to eternal salvation, rather than speaking of belief, trust, or faith in Jesus, we should speak instead of fidelity to Jesus as… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“For reasons that will become clear in due course, I submit that the gospel is not primarily about the necessity of the human response… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“The gospel has been entrusted to the whole church for the sake of the entire world.” — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“the gospel is the power-releasing story of how Jesus became king and the only adequate response is allegiance alone.” — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“Some still need to be convinced that enacted obedience is essential to salvation. Those who are already persuaded need a more robust theological grammar… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“God’s superabundant, prior gift is granted without regard to our relative worth, but the reception of God’s gift demands a return gift from us,… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
“The key point is that true pistis is not an irrational launching into the void but a reasonable, action-oriented response grounded in the conviction… — Matthew W. Bates Copy Share Image
