Category Archives: Quotes
No One Accidentally Becomes Godly
D. A. Carson, For the Love of God, Vol. 2: People do not – will not – drift towards holiness apart from grace-driven effort. People do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer and obedience to scripture, faith and delight in the … Continue reading
Larry Flynt Gets Spirituality Right
Yes, you read that headline right. Porn king Larry Flynt, interviewed on Shatner’s Raw Nerve, said this about spirituality: “Spirituality” is, I think, just a resolve for people who don’t want to admit that they have serious questions about religion. … Continue reading
Huston Smith on Religious Artifacts
Noted author and religious studies professor Huston Smith (from his book Why Religion Matters) on the prevalence of religious artifacts and the importance of religion throughout human history: Wherever people live, whenever they live, they find themselves faced with three … Continue reading
Don Carson on Remarriage of the Guilty Party
Asked about “freedom to remarry” for the “guilty” or “innocent” party after a divorce for sexual sin, Dr. Don Carson responds: “There are some people that say that only the innocent party does have the right to remarry. I find … Continue reading
Chandler on the heart of Christian obedience
Matt Chandler, Sermon: “Sabbath” sermon, November 22, 2009… four days before Thanksgiving when he collapsed at home with a seizure that ultimately lead to the discovery of advanced brain cancer: “[Non-believers] think that we obey the moral laws that we … Continue reading
Keller & Temple: Your religion is what you do with your solitude
Tim Keller, Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. Sermon: Discipline of Desire Pt. 2 (mins. 17:35 to 20:01)… There’s a quote by [Archbishop William Temple] that I’ve used for years. I remember in one of my earliest Gospel sermons … Continue reading
Keller: A sense of God’s absence is a sense of God’s presence
Tim Keller, expositing the opening words of Psalm 63:1 (emphasis mine): The Bible never says that finding God is the result of seeking for Him. The Bible always says that seeking God is the result of having found Him. You … Continue reading
Risk-Taking God vs. The True Risk of Open Theism
“To abandon belief in the omnipotence of God may ‘solve’ the problem of evil, but the cost is enormous: the resulting God is incapable of helping us. He may be able to give us quite a bit of sympathy, and … Continue reading
The strength of one’s faith vs. faith in the strength of the One
“It isn’t the intensity of faith, at least not in Christianity. It’s not the intensity of faith that saves. It’s the greatness of the One on whom it links itself, or, on whom it takes as its object. That is … Continue reading