Arminianism Quote by Thomas C. Oden Download Open image ““Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.”” — Thomas C. Oden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arminianism Christianity Faith Free will Grace
“Faith is like a muscle, and it needs to be exercised in order to become strong.” — Wanda E. Brunstetter Copy Share Image
“Faith is about submission and trust, not about will and determination.” — David Megill Copy Share Image
“Faith is a simple believing in and confidence in Love and His goodness toward us.” — Catherine Toon Copy Share Image
“Faith often means taking a voluntary step from the known into the unknown in response to God’s leading.” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Faith is an insertion of absolute conviction that is assume without reason and is defended against all reason.” — AronRa Copy Share Image
“Faith is a verb. An action, like love, that we do and live every day.” — Joan L. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“God’s holiness without God’s love would be unbearable. God’s love without God’s holiness would be unjust. God’s wisdom found a way to bring them… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Into your hands, 0 Lord, we commit ourselves this day. Give to each one of us a watchful, a humble, and a diligent spirit… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom, then God… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“God's holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God's love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having a disposition… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The theater in which God has chosen to meet rational creatures quietly is the inward realm of conscience, moral reasoning, prayer, and study, especially… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Lord, inspire us to read your Scriptures and meditate upon them day and night. We beg you to give us real understanding of what… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“BECAUSE OF PIETY’S PENCHANT for taking itself too seriously, theology does well to nurture a modest, unguarded sense of comedy. Some droll sensibility is… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Experiential sanctification is an ongoing process of daily rededication, reconsecration, mortification, and vivification of the whole person to God. It calls for believers to… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having a disposition… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“To explain the matter I will employ a simile, which yet, I confess is very dissimilar; but its dissimilitude is greatly in favour of… — James Arminius Copy Share Image
“How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“God sovereignly decreed that man should be free to exercise moral choice, and man from the beginning has fulfilled that decree by making his… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“In the secret recesses of man's nature the grace is given disposing and enabling him to yield. Though the will must at last act… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If God is love (1 John 4:7) but intended Christ’s atoning death to be the propitiation for only certain people so only they have… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.” — Austin Fischer Copy Share Image
