“The aboriginal sin is not sexual, but is rather pride and insolence. Sex gets involved soon enough, but the sexual issues are just the battlefield. The conflict is over mastery.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 21

“Without an exhaustive rule through the predestinating love of the Father, unbelieving men will always see a job opening. They will want to fill that gap. They mimic the Father’s omnipotence, which is where we get the totalitarian part. They also try to mimic His love, which is how we get the tolerance farce. And so it is that we find ourselves suffocating under this totalitolerance.”

Mere Christendom, p. 118

“We cannot understand the first thing about the Creation, or the Fall, or the redemption accomplished by Christ until we first grasp the fixed immensity that is nature.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 19

“Someone might plead necessity, and say that administrative law is too extensive and too complex for a legislature to understand, still less to pass. The reply to this is simple—if a set of regulations is too burdensome for the legislature to pass, then it is too burdensome for us to live under.”

Mere Christendom, p. 117

“God made us male and female, and this is the image of God (Gen. 1:27). We cannot talk about men and women without talking about the triune God, Christ and the Church, and the whole point of the gospel. We cannot talk nonsense about men and women without talking nonsense about the triune God, Christ and the Church, and the whole point of the gospel.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 14