Geerhardus Vos

The Roman Catholic doctrine of the mass is the consistent expression of the idea that the church must supply the things of salvation from its treasury to believers ex opere operato.

If the man as a character does not stand behind his act, the latter loses all value.

God's names are not empty sounds (like the names of people), but they have meaning and contribute to our knowledge of God.

The resurrection of the Mediator shows by way of example what will occur with all the members of His body.

The entire man is, in his sinful state, the object of God's displeasure.

[Christ] had a will, which He knew to distinguish from the Father's will (so also from His divine will) when He prayed, 'not my will, but yours be done.

Christ's subjection to the law began at the incarnation; his entire life was a continual suffering.

That God would declare the sinner righteous without his own help seems foolishness to the natural man.

Arminians say in principle that God has exactly as much right to us as He manifests benefits.

To let the image of God's self-revelation in the Scriptures mirror itself as fully and clearly as possible in his mind, is the first and most important duty of every theologian.

Biblical theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.

A so-called Christianity proving cold or hostile towards the interests of the life to come has ceased to be Christianity in the historic sense of the word.

Jesus speaks as One who is sovereign in the sphere of truth, because He is King in the realm of realities to which the truth belongs.

The beginning of hungering and thirsting after righteousness lies in the birth of conviction of sin.

Our intellect judges what decision of our will squares with it, and on that basis the will follows this judgement of the intellect.

The man who believes learns, in the wrestling of his soul to offer God righteousness, to look away from himself and to rest in the Mediator for his standing before God, on which his entire destiny hangs.

2) It is broken and nonetheless united bread, just because it represents the Mediator according to two aspects, according to two states.

1) The communion of saints experienced in the Lord's Supper is based on communion with the Lord. Because everyone is joined to Christ, He is joined to believers.

We must hold fast to real fellowship with Christ in the Lord’s Supper. And that real fellowship may never be sublimated into a thinking about Christ or into a conscious activity of faith with Christ.

The true Church is a teaching church, a confessing church.