Timothy George > Quotes

“All of this is a commentary on Augustine’s famous dictum at the beginning of his Confessions: “O Lord, thou hast made us for thyself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.”
― Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers: 25th Anniversary

“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were, from death to renewed life.”20”
― Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers

“In the words of Scripture you will find the swaddling clothes in which Christ lies. Simple and little are the swaddling clothes, but dear is the treasure, Christ, that lies in them.”
― Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers: 25th Anniversary

“We believe, confess, and teach that the only rule and norm, according to which all dogmas and all doctors ought to be esteemed and judged, is no other whatever than the prophetic and apostolic writings both of the Old and of the New Testaments.”
― Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers

“O fortunate age of ours, a truly golden age, when … the whole crop of virtues from that age of innocence are renewed, restored to life, and bloom again!”
― Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers

“Christ did not establish and institute the ministry of proclamation to provide us with money, property, popularity, honor, or friendship.”
― Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers: 25th Anniversary

“For Augustine, the human will is always moved in one direction or another by the object of its love. In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were capable of moving either toward the love of God (amor Dei), or away from God and toward the love of self (amor sui). When they chose the latter, something disastrous happened both for them and for all their human descendents. Their free will was left intact in the sense that it was still they who acted and loved, and they who were therefore morally responsible for what they did; however, their free will was so distorted by sin that it was drawn away from the love of God, the true purpose for which they had been created. Now it was pulled in its innermost desires toward the love of self. In other words, human free will was so weakened by sin and the fall that it became "curved in on itself" (incurvatus in se).”
― Timothy George, Amazing Grace: God's Pursuit, Our Response

“Luther’s greatest contribution to Protestant ecclesiology was his doctrine of the priesthood of all believers.”
― Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers: 25th Anniversary

“There is nothing for which I wish to break my neck.”
― Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers