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Favorite Trinity Quotes

Faithful readers: Please share your favorite quotes relating to the Trinity with the rest of us! They can be pro- or con-, insightful or silly. Classic, or recent. Everyone together now: Cut… Paste…

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4 thoughts on “Favorite Trinity Quotes”

  1. Ian Spencer

    I recently heard a pastor give this quote (sorry, I don’t remember who he was quoting):

    “He who denies the Trinity loses his soul;
    he who tries to explain the Trinity loses his mind.”

  2. Dale

    OK, I can’t resist this one:

    Trinity, n. In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, three entirely distinct deities consistent with only one. Subordinate deities of the polytheistic faith, such as devils and angels, are not dowered with the power of combination, and must urge individually their clames to adoration and propitiation. The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion. In rejecting it because it is incomprehensible, Unitarians betray their inadequate sense of theological fundamentals. In religion we believe only what we do not understand, except in the instance of an intelligible doctrine that contradicts an incomprehensible one. In that case we believe the former as a part of the latter.

    — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
    (http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/bierce.htm)

    This is one of your more interesting atheist-jeering quotes, as it seems to be based on some actual thinking.

  3. Matthew

    I always get a laugh from Bernard Lonergan’s line that “The Trinity is a matter of five notions or properties, four relations, three persons, two processions, one substance or nature, and no understanding.”

  4. Dale

    OK, I’ll get it started. Here’s one of my favorites:

    What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussion concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God. I had rather feel contrition than be skilful in the definition thereof. If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should all this profit thee without the love and grace of God? Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, save to love God, and Him only to serve. That is the highest wisdom, to cast the world behind us, and to reach forward to the heavenly kingdom.

    Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (http://www.4literature.net/Thomas_a_Kempis/Imitation_of_Christ/)

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