Status Updates From Church Dogmatics 2.1: The D...

Need to finish section on patience.

"The wrath of God which we had merited, by which we must have been annihilated and would long since have been annihilated, was now in our place borne and suffered as though it had smitten us and yet in such a way that it did not smite us and can no more smite us."

"Grace in itself means primarily that the sin of the creature, the resistance which it opposes to God, cannot check, weaken or render impossible the operation of divine grace. On the contrary, grace shows its power over and against sin. Grace, in fact, presupposes the existence of this opposition. It reckons with it, but does not fear it. It is not limited by it. It overcomes it, triumphing in this opposition..."

"When we say that God is free, the accent does not fall on "free" but on "God."

"God is not exhausted by this dialectical transcendence which, however strictly it may be understood, must always be understood with equal strictness as immanence.... God is in Himself free event, free act and free life."

“The stream of divine mercy flows from the hidden fundamental goodness of God” - Anselm

“When God loves, revealing his inmost being in the fact that he loved and therefore seeks and creates fellowship, this being and doing is divine and distinct from all other loving”

“Every relationship into which God enters with that is it Himself must be interpreted...as eventuating between two utterly unequal partners”