John Cunningham Geikie: Quotes about God

John Cunningham Geikie was Scottish Presbyterian minister and author. Explore interesting quotes on god.

John Cunningham Geikie: 12 quotes0 likes

“Step by step, He had raised their conceptions of Him nearer the unspeakable grandeur of His true nature and work. At first the Teacher, He had, after a time, by gradual disclosures, revealed Himself as the Son of God veiled in the form of man; and, now, since His crucifixion and resurrection, He had taught them to see in Him the Messiah, exalted to immortal and Divine majesty, as the conqueror of Death and the Lord of all.”

John Cunningham Geikie

The Life and Words of Christ (1886), p. 607.

“But now, the sounds of infancy, always nearest the heart, and sure to come to the lips in our deepest emotion, returned in His anguish; and in words which He had learned at His mother's knee, His heart uttered its last wail — "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?"”

John Cunningham Geikie

"My God! My God! why hast Thou forsaken me?"
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 73.

“An undivided heart, which worships God alone, and trusts Him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.”

John Cunningham Geikie

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 601.