If we too quickly dismiss a person as heretical for not believing the same thing we do about a subject over which there is much debate within orthodoxy, we also have to stop reading any theologian we’ve ever read.
Me, in a review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins
Here is our big problem: the validity of your movement is based on the number of your followers.
Dr. John Hannah, on the influence of democracy on American Christianity
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.
Uncle Screwtape, The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
Christian ethics is for the witness made by churches. The test of its adequacy is not whether national policy will adopt it, but whether it is faithful to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
John Howard Yoder
I’m glad we have a day for the presidents. But shouldn’t we also have a day that honors Congress? You know, when the Senate and House can kick back and not worry about getting anything done?
Craig Ferguson
I actually prefer not having “Reformed” in the title. I try to teach Biblical theology, not Reformed theology. The fact that those two things generally happen to coincide is not my fault.
Fellow teacher, on our switch to the ESV Study Bible
Grace is not opposed to effort. It is opposed to earning.
Dallas Willard
When God does what God is going to to, this is not about throwing the present creation into the trash can and leaving everyone sitting on a cloud playing harps in some platonic heaven.
N.T. Wright, Interview with Logos
No, it’s not farfetched to me. Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: he was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets, be they Elijah, Muhammad, Buddha, or Confucius. But actually Christ doesn’t allow you that. He doesn’t let you off that hook. Christ says: No. I’m not saying I’m a teacher, don’t call me teacher. I’m not saying I’m a prophet. I’m saying: “I’m the Messiah.” I’m saying: “I am God incarnate.” And people say: No, no, please, just be a prophet. A prophet, we can take. You’re a bit eccentric … The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me, that’s farfetched.
Bono, In Conversation with Michka Assayas
For example, in January President Bush sacrificed the meaning of Matthew 5:14 on the altar of national pride, when he said to the National Religious Broadcasters in defense of the Gulf war, “I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ ordained, to be a light unto the world.” What that amounts to is an outrageous distortion of Jesus’ meaning. That misuse of Scripture is designed for immature babes that are easily swayed by surface words without thought and discernment. The “light of the world” in Matthew 5:14 does not refer to Americans bombing Iraq no matter how justified the war may have been.
John Piper, 1992 Sermon
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