Tag: Selected Quotes

“But if you are alive, vibrant, and forgiven, you now live in a world where you can project that in amazing ways. The gospel is not some tiresome thing that door-to-door salesmen try to talk you into . . . (Acts 3:19). We are actually talking about a cool breeze that blows off the ocean of God’s infinite pleasure and delight. We are talking about times of refreshing, and if we are not talking about times of refreshing, then we are not talking about the gospel as presented in Scripture.”

Ploductivity, p. 42

“Let us say that the elders decide that they were going to paint the steeple orange, and all the rest of the congregation supported them in this embarrassment. You and your family were the only members who had not lost your minds. The arguments for doing this were beyond lame—William of Orange; good, hearty Protestant color; and so on. What you think about this travesty is honored by God. How you think about it may or may not be honored by God, depending on how much orange paint we buy, and whether or not it is fluorescent. Remember that being right about the orange won’t matter if the steeple of your heart’s sanctuary is painted black, with lightning bolts down the sides.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, pp. 49, 52

“Contrary to the theory of evolution, we are not over-developed animals who moved away from the ‘natural’ and down into the ‘artificial.’ For man, the artificial is natural. We want nothing to do with Rousseau’s noble savage.”

Ploductivity, p. 41

“We are told other things about the Second Person of the Trinity elsewhere in Scripture—He is the icon of God, He is the wisdom of God, He is the Son of God, He is the light from God, and so on. But there is a peculiar primacy given to the Word. This is that which defines all else.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 47

“This contributes to the problem that many Christians have, which is assuming that tools are extraneous to our humanity, and not essential. Somebody thought them up, and perhaps they shouldn’t have. But when we see that tools are a subset of media, and that media were obviously a gifts from God, given to us through the mere fact of creation, we should become much more comfortable with the idea of tools as essential to our humanity.”

Ploductivity, p. 37

“Cultures pass through aesthetic phases as they rise and fall, and the last phase is the phase of decadence. It is the phase in which sensate spectacle is glorified, and it is a sign, not of glory but of decrepitude.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 45