
“What ought to make worship delightful to us is not, in the first instance, its novelty or its aesthetic beauty, but its object: God himself is delightfully wonderful, and we learn to delight in him.”
― Worship by the Book
― Worship by the Book
“Paul was not a practical Christian who regarded life as superior to doctrine, and practice as superior to principle. On the contrary, he overcame the principle of Jewish particularism in the only way in which it could be overcome; he overcame principle by principle.”
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“The radical fragmentation of academic disciplines, with the concomitant development of the rebarbative and arcane language which specialization brings in its wake, has served to render higher education not a context for developing independent thinking but for fostering a trivialization of values, where PhDs on hotel management and on body piercing at the Jersey shore have as much legitimacy as those dealing with what would once have been considered the great questions of life: eternal salvation or class struggle or world poverty or nuclear war.”
― Minority Report: Unpopular Thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism
― Minority Report: Unpopular Thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism

“To be right with God the judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is a greater.”
― Knowing God
― Knowing God
“The notion that you can come to church on Sunday and bend your knee in worship when in fact you have not done so during the week is a delusion.”
― Worship by the Book
― Worship by the Book

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