fremdschämen (German). “This is what occurs when you are embarrassed for someone who ought to be embarrassed for himself, but isn’t.” From Douglas Wilson, Whose Ox Is Being Sued
Category: faith
Apr 20
Quotable: Alister McGrath
“Cultural assimilation is all too often the prelude to ecclesial extinction.” — from Heresy!
Mar 13
Quotable: C.S. Lewis on the Church of England
“Such are the reactions of one bleating layman to Modern Theology. It is right that you should hear them. You will not perhaps hear them very often again. Your parishioners will not often speak to you quite frankly. Once the layman was anxious to hide the fact that he believed so much less than the …
Jan 09
Quotable: John Piper on William Mackenzie
“…a lover of books and a lover of people. That’s an unusual combination, you know. Most people who are bookish don’t like people–they just tolerate them.”
Dec 29
Quotable: Gavin Ortlund
“Promise is empty without fulfillment; but fulfillment is meaningless without promise.” From his excellent article on the Bible here via Challies.com
Dec 23
Quotable: Edmund Clowney
“Certainly Satan does not find it necessary to offer all the kingdoms of the world to the average sinner. He can buy most sinners for small change.”
Nov 24
Quotable: C.S. Lewis on Bultmann et al
“These men ask me to believe they can read between the lines of the old texts; the evidence is their obvious inability to read (in any sense worth discussing) the lines themselves. They claim to see fern-seed and can’t see an elephant ten yards away in broad daylight.” –from Lewis’s Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism
Aug 26
Quotable: Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 13:22
“Shame on those who, with this evidence before them, brand this good man with the epithet of workmonger! a man who, in inward holiness, outward usefulness, and genuine love to God and man, was worth ten score of such self-called believers.”
