Creaturely Quotes

#1. The triune God will indwell the world in a divine way - the world will indwell God in a creaturely way.

Jurgen Moltmann

#2. Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.

John Burnside

#3. Theologies of glory ascend to heaven with humanly devised methods for bringing Christ down or for descending into the depths to make him living and real to us, but a theology of the cross receives him in the humble and weak form of those creaturely means that he has ordained.3

Michael S. Horton

#4. Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in
the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

Irvin D. Yalom

#5. With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

John Burnside

#6. Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get out of our self-made cave and walk in the glorious light of God's holiness.

R.C. Sproul

#7. And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.

Wendell Berry

#8. Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

Randy Alcorn

#9. Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

Pope John XXIII

#11. Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe...

Curtis R. Smith

#12. I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

Johnny Kelly

#13. If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it ... better.

David Auburn

#14. Jesus Christ is the mighty Saviour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. And these two things, the love of God and Christ's satisfaction, had to and could go hand in hand because we were simultaneously the object of his love as his creatures and the object of his wrath as sinners.

Herman Bavinck