Barry G. Webb > Quotes

“worship had been divorced from justice, and the fatherless and the widow had become the chief victims”
― Barry G. Webb, The Message of Isaiah

“The profound insight of the passage as a whole is that human wickedness in all its rank variety is a manifestation of one basic evil, namely, trust in ourselves rather than trust in God”
― Barry G. Webb, The Message of Isaiah

“The cross places us under a far greater obligation to love than the exodus ever could.”
― Barry G. Webb, The Message of Isaiah

“But grace is always hard for rebels to understand; their view of God is too small.”
― Barry G. Webb, The Message of Isaiah

“Mountains played an important part in the religions of Israel’s neighbours. They were the points where heaven and earth were thought to meet and were therefore highly favoured as sites for altars and temples”
― Barry G. Webb, The Message of Isaiah

“Redemption’ (root pāḏâ) in the Old Testament is fundamentally ‘rescue’, frequently through the payment of a price”
― Barry G. Webb, The Message of Isaiah

“Redemption and judgment are inseparable; the one can come only through the other.”
― Barry G. Webb, The Message of Isaiah

“Peace on any other terms is a cruel delusion, a truth we need to bear in mind constantly as we seek to be faithful to God’s word in our own, modern world of religious pluralism.”
― Barry G. Webb, The Message of Isaiah