Where God Meets Man Quotes

“A sacrament is an action in which the Word of God does something to us through the earthly sign. It is an action in which God gets through to us in a concrete way.”
― Gerhard O. Forde, Where God Meets Man: Luther's Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel

“Everyone, it seems, wants to do God the favor of making him less objectionable. Some say he is not absolute or omnipotent yet but is perhaps in the process of becoming so. Some say he is not infinite, but finite. Some even say he has obliged us all by dying!”
― Gerhard O. Forde, Where God Meets Man: Luther's Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel

“In things that are “below him,” man has freedom in Luther’s view to act as he sees fit. In things “above,” however, the matter is different; there we encounter the problem of God’s predestination.”
― Gerhard O. Forde, Where God Meets Man: Luther's Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel

“bitterest pills for modern man to swallow: the problem of divine sovereignty as it is expressed particularly in the doctrine of predestination.”
― Gerhard O. Forde, Where God Meets Man: Luther's Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel

“Who knows whether we are right in saying that the sufferings of the divine-human Jesus have the “infinite worth” demanded by the scheme? All such speculations are really quite beyond the limits of our knowing. They are at best conjecture, which for many people, as history shows too plainly, only calls the gospel into question.”
― Gerhard O. Forde, Where God Meets Man: Luther's Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel