Trinity Quotes - Page 2

• Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christian, Believe, Understanding

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• We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea of the perfect equality of all the persons in the Trinity. But it might well be expected, that the advances to the present doctrine of the Trinity should be gradual and slow. It was, indeed, some centuries before it was completely formed.

  Joseph Priestley

  Christian, Father, Son

  Joseph Priestley (1871). “A History of the Corruptions of Christianity”, p.16

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• Now there have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through whom the generation or birth of believers takes place, and he who is begotten by this Trinity is equally begotten of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost —for thus does the Gospel speak of the Spirit, that “that which is born of Spirit is spirit,” and it is “in Christ “that Paul begets, and the Father is the “Father of all”.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Father, Son

  "The Great Catechism".

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• Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I.

  Mark Hart

  Father, Son, Practice

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• As the Holy Trinity, our God is One Being, although Three Persons, so, likewise, we ourselves must be one. As our God is indivisible, we also must be indivisible, as though we were one man, one mind, one will, one heart, one goodness, without the smallest admixture of malice - in a word, one pure love, as God is Love. That they may be one, even as We are One (John 17:22).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there is whatever more human-scale version might have been possible to perceive later and maybe even befriend; and there is the internalized version of the parent with whom you struggle- to appease, to escape, to be yourself, to understand and be understood by- and they make up a chaotic and contradictory trinity.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mother, Being Yourself, Father

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.25, Granta Books

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• God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

  Paul Crouch

  Unions, Distinction, Draws

  Praise-a-thon, TBN, November 1990.

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• God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Christian, Mind

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• The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Beautiful, Christian, Two

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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• Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Soul, Deities

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.132, Barbour Publishing

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• Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.

  J. Lynn

  Beautiful, Attitude, Boys

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• The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus.

  Stephen Colbert

  Religious, Jesus, Father

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• This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy. But it must fill our churches also outside the timetable of Masses. Indeed, since the Eucharistic mystery was instituted out of love, and makes Christ sacramentally present, it is worthy of thanksgiving and worship. And this worship must be prominent in all our encounters with the Blessed Sacrament, both when we visit our churches and when the sacred species are taken to the sick and administered to them

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, Blessed, Taken

  Pope John Paul II (1994). “Letters to My Brother Priests”, Midwest Theological Forum

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• There was a young fellow from Trinity,
  Who took the square root of infinity.
  But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;
  He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

  George Gamow

  Science, Math, Squares

  "One, Two, Three...Infinity". Book by George Gamow, 1947.

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• Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but sheltered in him, forming him, but formed by him ... When she pronounces the words: 'Be it done to me according to thy word', the Mother conceives the mystery from the Trinity, in order to give it to the Son. The Son gives the word back to the Trinity by giving everything he has back to the Father in the Spirit. Then, after the Father has received it again, it is distributed to mankind by means of that extravagant expansioning-the Eucharist and the Holy Spirit.

  Adrienne von Speyr

  Mother, Father, Mean

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• O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

  George Sterling

  Stars, Space, Sun

  George Sterling (1904). “The Testimony of the Suns, and Other Poems”

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• According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Two, Religion, Peculiar

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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• Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Doctrine, Saving, Worship

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• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  John Pople

  College, Awards, October

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• Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

  George Ripley

  Shining, Soul, Body

  George Ripley (2014). “Five Preparations of the Philosopher’s Mercury”, p.4, Volume Edizioni srl

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• I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

  Henry Adams

  Doctrine, Physics, Accepting

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.94, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least particle, is a being in relation, and thus God-relation shines forth, ultimately creative Love shines forth. All comes from love, tends toward love, and is moved by love, naturally, according to different grades of consciousness and freedom... The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: only love makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and be loved.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Names

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• I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Character, Thinking, Female

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.

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• I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.

  Jen Lancaster

  Believe, Shopping, Ikea

  Jen Lancaster (2007). “Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?”, p.29, Penguin

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• They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him on the subject of the Trinity. They say that God says to me, "Forgive your enemies." I say, "I do;" but he says, "I will damn mine." God should be consistent. If he wants me to forgive my enemies he should forgive his. I am asked to forgive enemies who can hurt me. God is only asked to forgive enemies who cannot hurt him. He certainly ought to be as generous as he asks us to be.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hurt, Men, Forgiving

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