None Greater Quotes

“No matter where you flee, he is there. You would flee from yourself, would you? Will you not follow yourself wherever you flee? But since there is One even more deeply inward than yourself, there is no place where you may flee from an angered God except to a God who is pacified. There is absolutely no place for you to flee to. Do you want to flee from him? Rather flee to”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“What good news it is, then, that the gospel depends on a God who does not depend on us.”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“Sin against an infinite God cannot be atoned for by a Savior who has emptied himself of his divine attributes. No, it is his divine attributes that qualify him to make atonement in the first place. Sin against an infinite God can be met only by a Savior who is himself deity—and all the perfections identical with that deity—in infinite measure.”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“In him [God] all that we are is possessed in a higher, fuller, purer, and limitless way.” God is the one who “donates everything that we are to us out of his infinite plenitude of being, consciousness, and bliss.”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“some believed they could determine who God is simply by means of using their reasoning powers alone. The Bible could be set aside for good; reason was enough. As time passed, it became evident that the Enlightenment experiment had failed. War, for example, exposed the fact that humanity is not morally neutral but corrupt. The ill use of reason demonstrated that humanity was desperately in need of special revelation after all. Autonomous reason was not so autonomous, as it turned out. In fact, it was idolatrous, attempting to remove God from his throne and replace the Creator’s authority with the creature’s intellect instead. The follies of the Enlightenment should forever remind us that attempting to scale the ladder of heaven to pull God down is the height of human hubris. It is the tower of Babel all over again. A much better approach couples the quest for knowledge with humility, a humility that looks to God’s revelation of himself for understanding. It is the approach of faith seeking understanding.”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“We are speaking of God. Is it any wonder if you do not comprehend? For if you comprehend, it is not God you comprehend. Let it be a pious confession of ignorance rather than a rash profession of knowledge. To attain some slight knowledge of God is a great blessing; to comprehend him, however, is totally impossible.”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“If you’ve ever read John Bunyan’s famous allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress, then you know that picking the right friends to travel with can be the difference between reaching the celestial city and not. Friends can corrupt us, or they can lead us home.”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. C. S. LEWIS, “ON THE READING OF OLD BOOKS”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“Christianity is not about coming to God so that he can direct us to something or someone better than himself, some other thing that will make us ultimately happy. No, God himself is the one in whom all our joy, pleasure, and happiness are found.”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“Jeremiah confessed, saying, There is none like you, O Lord; You are great, and your name is great in might. (Jer. 10:6) There is none greater than this God, not because he is merely a greater version of ourselves but because he is nothing like ourselves. Only a Creator not to be confused with the creature is capable of stooping down to redeem those who have marred his image.”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

“While stacks of books invite the scholarly student to pick up and read, the churchgoer has little opportunity to dive headfirst into the deep things of God. Sadly, they turn to popular devotional literature to feed a spiritual hunger that only theology can satisfy.”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God