The Faith We Confess Quotes

“Paradoxical as it sounds, it is probably better to measure our spiritual progress by the degree of our awareness of sin rather than by our willingness to swear allegiance to Christ, since it is the former that reveals just how much we really understand the latter.”
― Gerald L. Bray, The Faith We Confess- An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles

“Latin terminology was subsequently absorbed into English and may seem more natural to us today than Cranmer’s translation does. For example, in the first article we read that God is ‘without...passions’ which is somewhat ambiguous (at least to a modern ear), but the Latin is impassibilis, or ‘impassible’, which makes the meaning immediately clear – to a theologian, at least! Modern”
― Gerald L. Bray, The Faith We Confess- An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles