The books are shut now, but they will be opened then. The things we have done in the body will come back to us, whether good or bad. Every pious thought, and every thought of sin; every secret prayer, and every secret curse; every unknown deed of charity, and every hidden deed of selfishness: we see them all again; and though we have not remembered them for years, and perhaps have forgotten them altogether, we shall have to acknowledge that they are our own, and take them to ourselves.
— James Denney (1856–1917), Theologe
Topics: Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Guilt & Forgiveness
Occasions: For Reflection
James Denney
James Denney (1856–1917) war ein schottischer presbyterianischer Pfarrer und Theologieprofessor in Glasgow. Er stellte das stellvertretende Sühnopfer Christi ins Zentrum seiner Theologie und geriet dabei in Konflikt sowohl mit theologisch Liberalen als auch mit konservativen Vertretern einer strikten Verbalinspiration. Für heutige Bibelleser verbinden seine Auslegungen zum Tod Jesu eine anspruchsvolle Schrifterklärung mit dem praktischen Anliegen evangeliumszentrierter Verkündigung.
All quotes by James Denney (8)
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
C.S. Lewis
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whoever knows Easter cannot despair.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Helmut Thielicke
Charles Haddon Spurgeon