“Under the new tyranny of the raw act of choosing, nothing would prevent two people from marrying, one in Massachusetts and one in Washington, whose one thing they share ‘in common’ is the fact that they have never met each other, never want to, and are resolved never to exchange any email whatsoever.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 62

[Regarding Acts 17:2 and 24:25] “And so what is free speech? It is not a means toward theocratic tyranny. Neither is it a secular end in itself. No. It is gospel fruit, and Jesus is the Lord of it.”

Mere Christendom, p. 151

“The problem is that as soon as they abandon the understanding of marriage as a covenanted conjugal relationship of a man and a woman, they have no consistent stopping point. Some of them don’t want a consistent stopping point, and others of them do—but they still can’t have one.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 60

“Our understanding of this will never be advanced by denying the essential goodness of the Old Testament law, dead teens and all, slavery and all, stoning for adultery and all.”

Mere Christendom, p. 149

“Scripture says nothing explicitly about sex-change operations, and Scriptures says nothing explicit about dental work. So if we restrict ourselves to a tight biblicism, we are going to be forced into an agnosticism that will take us where we really do not want to go. But here is the thing. Scripture is not silent whether or not nature is silent.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 54-55