“The devil . . . is a guilt farmer, and the seed is sin. Relativism is just a teaching calculated to get fools to throw their seed everywhere.”
Testifying, Not Explaining
“I can illustrate the Creator-creature divide on the blackboard, but I cannot do the physics involved and show my work. If I could do that, I wouldn’t be on this side of that divide.”
Christ or Pagan Chaos
“It really is Dionysus or the Crucified. And Dionysus is not just the god of the endless party—sex, drugs, and rock and roll—he is also the god of random dismemberment. In the sixties, we were urged many times (in a Dionysian vein) to ‘make love, not war.’ It turns out that the slogan actually means ‘make love, then war.’”
Run On
“Those who feast on accusations will eventually be eaten by them. This won’t necessarily happen tomorrow. You can run on for a long time.”
Broken on a Tree
“Accusation is holy law poured through the filter of a tiny and defiled soul. Justice is holy law unfiltered. Love is holy law poured out on the only sinless man, broken on a tree. And why was He willing to be broken there? He did it so a world full of accusers could become a world full of former accusers.”
Doing It RIght
“The right kind of self-accusation is evangelical repentance.”
Demented Moralistic Crusades
“This is why guilt goes on demented moralistic crusades. This is why we want to save polar bears that didn’t need saving, this is why we want to make the world safe for democracy, this is why we build bloody empires, this is why we call the practice of dismembering babies ‘women’s reproductive health’ and why sanctified sodomy is rapidly assuming the status of a civic sacrament. Guilt must be declared righteous; guilt must attain to glory. But apart from repentance and faith in Jesus, the only way to get there is by means of a moralistic and very public frenzy. In order to keep that frenzy from being identified for what it is, thus wrecking the glory party, it is also necessary to club any dissenters.”
Anemic Sin
“Sin is not seeking after glory, but rather falling short of it.”
Deep Difference
“Now God’s intention for the company of believers is not to have this spirit of accusation imported into the church, only with the addition of theological and orthodox adjectives to liven up the accusations. We are called to do something completely different, not to do the same thing decorated differently.”
From or To
“But there are only two possible bases of justification—one is the blood of Christ which frees us from accusation, and the other is relative superiority to somebody else, which only and always binds us to accusation.”