“Everybody needs saving, and so we really should start with our saviors.”
Fixing the Previous Fixes
“You can count on our politicians to get out there in front of all of this, so that they may insist on the necessary reforms. But never forget that all the things they need to fix are the result of all their previous reforms.”
Orc Girls
“What we have been seeing in our American streets over the last few years is an intersectional mash-up. It has been the meeting place where stupidity, envy, hatred, ignorance, and folly have all met up to do a little showing off. They all wanted to do a little flexing for the orc-girls.”
God Did It a Different Way
“We want the world to become Christian the way the devil offered to make it Christian, if only Jesus would bow down and worship him. But God works a different calculus, and He had His only-begotten Son hanged on a gibbet instead. What was He doing? He was making the world Christian, but He was doing it His way and on His timetable. But He was making the world Christian (John. 12:31). Jesus, by and through His death, cast out the prince of this world. And, by the way, in the original Greek “cast out” does not mean “kept around.”
We Want It Hot and Now
“But one of our current problems is that we are a convenience store civilization, and we want the next iteration of our civilization to be obtainable the same way we get coffee at the convenience store. We want to plonk our two dollars on the counter and walk out of there with the coffee.”
A Tidy Profit
“When nothing grows up but troubles, we are called to become trouble farmers, and to sell our crop at a tidy profit.”
To Pray for the End is to Pray for the Means
“We cannot pray for the purification of the silver, and then despair when we begin to approach the furnace that removes the dross.”
The Other Direction
“We were taught to pray that the kingdom would come to earth, not that the kingdom would float off into the sky. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Not Thy will be done in Heaven when we get there.”
Mere Christendom, p, 240
God’s Resurrection Move
“The West is dead. Long live the West.”
Like Dead Flies
“Far too many of us have lamented with the Psalmist, ‘I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree’ (Ps. 37:35). And when the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do (Ps. 11:3)? Their eyes are fat like grease, and their press secretaries lie like dead flies on a window will.”