Quotes About Author

desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all things given to us are given in order that we might know their author. This leads us to gratitude for His kindness toward us.

our faith in doctrine is not established until we have a perfect conviction that God is its author.

The frequent mention of the glory of God ought not to be regarded as superfluous, for what is infinite cannot be too strongly expressed.

We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And

Those who, rejecting Scripture, imagine that they have some peculiar way of penetrating to God, are to be deemed not so much under the influence of error as madness.

As age and weakness grew upon him, so he hastened his labour; and, according to his petition to God, he in manner ended his life with his work, for he lived not long after. So

Therefore, it is blasphemous to give the title Son to anyone but Christ.

Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked. Therefore

the Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or

The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is   framed according to the rules of art.

It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it. So

I leave it to the philosophers to discuss these faculties in their subtle way. For the upbuilding of godliness a simple definition will be enough for us.

Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all thing given to us are given in order that we might know their author.

If I were inclined to compile a whole volume from Augustine, I could easily show my readers, that I need no words but his.

Thus Paul denies that the causes of our election can be sought anywhere except in the hidden good pleasure of God. This

It is not fitting that God, before whose tribunal we must all finally stand, be subjected to our judgment — or rather to our foolish temerity. God

The sum is, that man cannot claim a single particle of righteousness to himself, without at the same time detracting from the glory of the divine righteousness.

those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination emerge.

The crisis is primarily, perhaps almost entirely, the consequence of decisions taken by private firms in an environment of minimal regulation

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

The moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing a mote of sunlight.