Quotes about Claim

I intend to focus on the question of truth. That means I do not inquire about facticity-what happened-but what is claimed, what is asserted here about reality.

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!" If the world and everything in it belong to God and come under his direct claim over them in and through Jesus, then there can be no sphere of life that is not radically open to the rule of God. There can be no non-God area in our lives and in our culture.

All of the Lord Jesus Christ is mine at the moment of conversion, but I possess only as much of Him as by faith I claim.

That one . . . she is mine.

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.

Today there is virtually a consensus... that Jesus came on the scene with an unheard of authority, with the claim of the authority to stand in God's place and speak to us and bring us to salvation. With regard to Jesus there are only two possible modes of behavior: either to believe that in him God encounters us or to nail him to the cross as a blasphemer. Tertium non datur. [There is no third way.]2

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.

If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.