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“We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.”

Persons Form Jesus Names Speak Goal Christ Divine Son Jesus Christ Essence Assuming Centre Trinity Prominent Corresponding

Book:Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God

Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God

“In a sense we're all children of God - Jesus is called the one and only Son. Monogeneo is the word, God's only "genetic" child. He bears the very essence of God. What we say about God we say about Jesus. So the promise rises and falls on the identity of Jesus.”

Children Fall Jesus Identity Son Bears Promise Essence Child Of God Rise And Fall Only Son

Author:Max Lucado

“O fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have recreated us in grace through the Blood of Your Son, without giving Yourself wholly to us as our Food, O God, Divine Essence? What impelled You to do this? Your charity alone.”

Giving Enough Fire Grace Blood Divine Son Essence Charity Your Son Giving Yourself Fire Of Love

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“The essence of Christianity consists therein: that the creation of the Father, destroyed by sin, is again restored in the death of the Son of God and recreated by the grace of the Holy Spirit to a Kingdom of God.”

Spirit Faith Father Sin Christianity Grace Creation Son Holy Essence Kingdoms Christian Life Destroyed Holy Spirit Kingdom Of God

Book:The Sacrifice of Praise: Meditations Before and After Receiving Access to the Table of the Lord

Source: The Sacrifice of Praise: Meditations Before and After Receiving Access to the Table of the Lord

“Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.”

Persons Three Father Names Son Holy Essence Ghost Holy Ghost Baptism Father Son

Book:An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter

Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter

“The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.”

Father Son Essence Property Relative Participants

Author:William Ames