The Attributes of God Quotes

“Grace is that in God which brings into favor one justly in disfavor.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart

“God is immutable in His essence. His nature and being are infinite, and so, subject to no mutations. There never was a time when He was not; there never will come a time when He shall cease to be. God has neither evolved, grown, nor improved. All that He is today, He has ever been, and ever will be. “I am the LORD, I change not” (Mal 3:6) is His own unqualified affirmation. He cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse. Altogether unaffected by anything outside Himself, improvement or deterioration is impossible. He is perpetually the same. He only can say, “I AM THAT I AM” (Exo 3:14). He is altogether uninfluenced by the flight of time. There is no wrinkle upon the brow of eternity. Therefore His power can never diminish nor His glory ever fade.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“IN ONE OF HIS letters to Erasmus, Luther said, “YOUR thoughts of God are too human.” Probably”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“God did not elect any sinner because He foresaw that he would believe, for the simple but sufficient reason that no sinner ever does believe until God gives him faith; just as no man sees until God gives him sight. Sight is God’s gift, seeing is the consequence of my using His gift. So”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“God foreknows what will be because He has decreed what shall be. It is therefore a reversing of the order of Scripture, a putting of the cart before the horse, to affirm that God elects because He foreknows people. The truth is, He foreknows because He has elected. This removes the ground or cause of election from outside the creature, and places it in God’s own sovereign will. God purposed in Himself to elect a certain people, not because of anything good in them or from them, either actual or foreseen, but solely out of His own mere pleasure. As”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“False theology makes God’s foreknowledge of our believing the cause of His election to salvation; whereas, God’s election is the cause, and our believing in Christ is the effect .”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“God was alone when He made His decrees, and His determinations were influenced by no external cause. He was free to decree or not to decree, and to decree one thing and not another. This liberty we must ascribe to Him who is Supreme, Independent, and Sovereign in all His doings.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom He makes Himself known”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“Such a God cannot be found out by searching. He can be known only as He is revealed to the heart by the Holy Spirit through the Word. It”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“We are unprofitable servants” (Luk 17:10)—our obedience has profited God nothing.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom He makes Himself known . Nor is God known by the intellect. “God is Spirit” (Joh 4:24), and therefore can only be known spiritually. But fallen man is not spiritual; he is carnal. He is dead to all that is spiritual. Unless he is born again, supernaturally brought from death unto life, miraculously translated out of darkness into light, he cannot even see the things of God (Joh 3:3), still less apprehend them (1Co 2:14).”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“He is solitary in His majesty, unique in His excellency, peerless in His perfections. He sustains all, but is Himself independent of all. He gives to all, but is enriched by none.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“This is the prime way of honoring God. We do not so glorify God by elevated admirations, or eloquent expressions, or pompous services for Him as when we aspire to a conversing with Him with unstained spirits, and live to Him in living like Him (S. Charnock).”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

“The “god” which the vast majority of professing Christians “love” is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the “indiscretions” of youth. But the Word says, “Thou hatest all workers of iniquity” (Psa 5:5). And again, “God is angry with the wicked every day” (Psa 7:11). But men refuse to believe in this God, and gnash their teeth when His hatred of sin is faithfully pressed upon their attention. No, sinful man was no more likely to devise a holy God than to create the Lake of Fire in which he will be tormented for ever and ever.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

“The unregenerate do not really believe in the holiness of God. Their conception of His character is altogether one-sided. They fondly hope that His mercy will override everything else. “Thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself” (Psa 50:21) is God’s charge against them.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

“Here then is a sure resting-place for the heart. Our lives are neither the product of blind fate nor the result of capricious chance, but every detail of them was ordained from all eternity, and is now ordered by the living and reigning God. Not a hair of our heads can be touched without His permission.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

“Here is encouragement to prayer. There is no cause for fearing that the petitions of the righteous will not be heard, or that their sighs and tears shall escape the notice of God, since He knows the thoughts and intents of the heart. There is no danger of the individual saint being overlooked amidst the multitude of supplicants who daily and hourly present their various petitions, for an infinite Mind is as capable of paying the same attention to millions as if only one individual were seeking its attention.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

“The principal prayer and aim of Christians should be that we “walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Col 1:10).”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“Oh Dios, el tiempo corre, volando como un pájaro asustado. El pájaro del tiempo está volando y tiene poco camino para revolotear. El vino de la vida se está yendo gota a gota, y las hojas de la vida están cayendo una a una. Pronto, ante el Inefable todo hombre debe aparecer para rendir cuentas por los hechos realizados en el cuerpo. Oh, Padre, mantén en nosotros un sentido de santidad para que no podamos pecar y justificarlo, sino que el arrepentimiento sea profundo en nuestras vidas. Te lo pedimos en el nombre de Cristo. Amén.”
― A.W. Tozer, Los atributos de Dios - vol. 1 (Incluye guía de estudio): Un viaje al corazón del Padre | Descubre quién es Dios y cómo te transforma conocerlo.

“An unknown God can neither be trusted, served, nor worshipped.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“But think not, sinners, that you shall escape thus; God’s mill goes slow, but grinds small;”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents

“Now the wrath of God is as much a Divine perfection as is His faithfulness, power, or mercy. It must be so, for there is no blemish whatever, not the slightest defect in the character of God; yet there would be if “wrath” were absent from Him!”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents

“Grace is a provision for men who are so fallen that they cannot lift the axe of justice, so corrupt that they cannot change their own natures, so averse to God that they cannot turn to Him, so blind that they cannot see Him, so deaf that they cannot hear Him, and so dead that He Himself must open their graves and lift them into resurrection.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents

“The clay rises up against the Potter and asks, “Why hast Thou made me thus?” A lawless insurrectionist dares to call into question the justice of Divine sovereignty.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents

“God is determined to exercise His sovereign right by choosing a limited number to be saved, who is wronged? Is God obliged to force His gift on those who value it not? Is God compelled to save those who are determined to go their own way?”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents

“Were God to show grace to all of Adam’s descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as a meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God is under no obligation to any of His creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against Him.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents

“Grace can neither be bought, earned, nor won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents

“It is not long since we followed a multitude to do evil, had no concern for God’s glory, and lived only to gratify self. How patiently He bore with our vile conduct! And now that grace has snatched us as brands from the burning, giving us a place in God’s family, and begotten us unto an eternal inheritance in glory; how miserably we requite Him.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents

“In the ecclesiastical realm, thousands who have solemnly covenanted to preach the truth make no scruple to attack and deny it. Nor can reader or writer claim complete immunity from this fearful sin:”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents

“The natural situation of the water is to be above the earth, because it is lighter, and to be immediately under the air, because it is heavier. Who restrains the natural quality of it? certainly man does not, and cannot. It is the flat of its Creator which alone bridles it:”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God: With Linked Table of Contents