10 Quotes by Geerhardus Vos

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.

If we are true believers, though we ourselvesshould sometimes forget, the world will not fail to remind us of the difference between it and us. And, on the other hand, if we at any time feel perfectly at home in the world, if our consciousness of its necessary antagonism to us is entirely in abeyance, then there is abundant reason for us to examine ourselves. And the probability is that we have been backward in cultivating our hope upon God and the world to come.

Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.

Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.

There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.

The heaven in which the Christian by anticipation dwells is not the cosmical heaven, it is a thoroughly redemptive heaven, a heaven become what it is through the progressive upbuilding and enrichment pertaining to the age-long work of God in the sphere of redemption.

The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.

The term ‘reconciliation’ describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself.