Category: excerpts & quotes

This is why Paul attacks the law, when it is in the mouths of those who would commend themselves. This is why he glories in the law when it is in the mouth of the one who loves. This is why Jeremiah attacked the Temple, and why Solomon built it. This is why God commanded…

Go out and open [blind] eyes. Don’t stop because you can’t do this. Of course you can’t. Only God can open the eyes of the blind (2 Cor. 4:6). But the fact that you can’t make electricity or create light never stops you from flipping light switches. The fact that you can’t create fire in…

Cain didn’t kill Abel simply because Cain was evil. He killed him because the contrast between Abel’s goodness and Cain’s evil made Cain angry. It made him feel guilty. Abel didn’t have to say anything; Abel’s goodness was a constant reminder to Cain that he was evil. And instead of dealing with his own evil…

If evil is that which displeases God, this it is not possible for Him to be evil. He is the standard, the ruler, the inch, the ethical metric system… This is wordplay, but it isn’t just wordplay. If there is an infinite creator God who spoke the universe into existence from nothing, then what standard…

If you don’t love God, and you can’t do anybody any ultimate good. You can feed them clothe them and house them and keep them comfortable while they perish. But in God’s mind, that by itself is not what love is. Love does feed and clothe and house—and keeps the commandments that include helping others…