William Law (1686–1761) English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer
As quoted in Art and the Message of the Church (1961) by Walter Ludwig Nathan, p. 120.
Christian Regeneration.
The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration (1739)
William Law (1686–1761) English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer
As quoted in Art and the Message of the Church (1961) by Walter Ludwig Nathan, p. 120.
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Fifth Revelation, Chapter 13
Context: In God there may be no wrath, as to my sight: for our good Lord endlessly hath regard to His own worship and to the profit of all that shall be saved. With might and right He withstandeth the Reproved, the which of malice and wickedness busy them to contrive and to do against God’s will. Also I saw our Lord scorn his malice and set at nought his unmight; and He willeth that we do so. For this sight I laughed mightily, and that made them to laugh that were about me, and their laughing was a pleasure to me.
William Law (1686–1761) English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer
The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration (1739)
Context: Some People have an Idea, or Notion of the Christian Religion, as if God was thereby declared so full of Wrath against fallen Man, that nothing but the Blood of his only begotten Son could satisfy his Vengeance.
Nay, some have gone such Lengths of Wickedness, as to assert that God had by immutable Decrees reprobated, and rejected a great Part of the Race of Adam, to an inevitable Damnation, to show forth and magnify the Glory of his Justice.
But these are miserable Mistakers of the Divine Nature, and miserable Reproachers of his great Love, and Goodness in the Christian Dispensation.
For God is Love, yea, all Love, and so all Love, that nothing but Love can come from him; and the Christian Religion is nothing else but an open, full Manifestation of the universal Love towards all Mankind.
As the Light of the Sun has only one common Nature towards all Objects that can receive it, so God has only one common Nature of Goodness towards all created Nature, breaking forth in infinite Flames of Love, upon every Part of the Creation, and calling everything to the highest Happiness it is capable of.
Joseph Alleine (1634–1668) Pastor, author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 540.
“A God minus wrath seems to be a God who is basically not against anything.”
James H. Cone (1938–2018) American theologian
Source: A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), p. 73
“Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
Charles Wesley (1707–1788) English Methodist and hymn writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 273.
“I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.”
Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 22