“Ruth was a virtuous woman, but she had some reputation issues: generally you don’t go out to the threshing floor and sleep at a man’s feet until he wakes up. That text is not usually used in courtship seminars.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 106

“If you find yourself in real solidarity with Palestinian Christians, and you want to know if it is love for Jesus, or just your nascent inner-anti-Semite rising, just ask yourself this question . . . Who do you have more in common with—a Palestinian non-Christian or a devout Christian woman with hoop earrings who just got back from the RNC, where she spent the entire convention wearing a big hat shaped like an elephant?”

Mere Christendom, p. 101

“Christendom will be easier to see when it can be photographed, but we are called to see it whether it can be photographed or not.”

Mere Christendom, p. 96

“The world is full of people who cross boundaries, and Christian women (wanting to be gracious) will often have difficulty telling a random stranger to pound sand. Now they don’t have to use that phrase, of course, but whatever they say, it should be clear and direct. Men who cross boundaries are frequently not masters of subtlety.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 103

“A Reformed understanding of the gospel, of worship, of education, of politics, and so on, is incoherent apart from a commitment to Christendom.”

Mere Christendom, p. 96

“The goal is not double-negative modesty. You shouldn’t ask how short shorts can be before you’re definitely in sin and then wear shorts that are a millimeter longer than that. If you intend to go up to the sin line and then take a half step back, then your goal is to be almost in sin.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 102