...Good philosophy must exists, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered...
A Look at Temptation, Confrontation, and Forgiveness in Luke 17:1-4
Confronting the sinner about a sin is an act of love. It is akin to a doctor telling a patient about a cancer diagnosis. The news is bad but necessary for opening the doorway to healing. Similarly, addressing sin opens the doorway to repentance and restoration.
J.I. Packer — Communion between God and man
Communion between God and man is the end to which both creation and redemption are the means; it is the goal to which both theology and preaching must ever point; it is the essence of true religion; it is, indeed, the definition of Christianity.
Albert Einstein on God’s existence
We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues...The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend...That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God.
H. Richard Niebuhr – on theological liberalism being naïvely optimistic.
A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.