January 4th, 2007

"Evangelicals seem to be at the zenith of their influence. Influence, however, is not simply a matter of numbers. It is necessarily bound up with an appropriate relationship with truth and character, both of which are eroded in every accomodation made to modernity. It is the inextinguishable knowledge of being owned by the transcendant God that forms character, and his ownership challenges that of every other contender, including that of the modern world. This is the issue: Who owns Evangelism?"
- David Wells, "No Place for Truth or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?" (p. 136)


"No Mr. or Miss Know-It-All should think,
when they see one man steal and one give alms
that they are seeing them through God's own eyes,
for one may yet rise up, the other fall."
- Dante, "Paradise", Canto XIII 139-142