James Denney Quotes

• The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.

  James Denney

  Alive, Christ, New Testament

  James Denney (1903). “The atonement and the modern mind”

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• In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

  James Denney

  Clever, Church, Wonderful

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• The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

  James Denney

  Heaven, Kingdoms, Desperate

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• No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

  James Denney

  Jesus, Clever, Men

  James Denney (1895). “Studies in Theology: Lectures Delivered in Chicago Theological Seminary”

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• The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether

  James Denney

  Men, Pieces, Human Nature

  James Denney (1895). “Studies in Theology: Lectures Delivered in Chicago Theological Seminary”

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