January 18th, 2008

"So the first key to witnessing is to draw a circle of three feet around the cross, invite the 'witnessee' into it, and only leave that circle for the empty tomb."
- James A. Kirkwood, "Godman - The Sunrise of Salvation" (p 103)

"All of us judge, that's not the issue; the issue is do we judge rightly or wrongly."
- James A. Kirkwood, "Godman - The Sunrise of Salvation" (p 113)

"We need no church's permission to be saved - nor any church's help. Nor can any church - Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, or otherwise, refuse us salvation. Salvation is always and only a matter between the sinner and his Savior! Nor can anyone, Man or Devil, take this water of life away from us. Christ told the woman at the well that the fountain would be hers forever!"
- James A. Kirkwood, "Godman - The Sunrise of Salvation" (p 114)

April 19th, 2007

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
- John 16:33 (NIV)

"When the church aligns itself politically, it gives a priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its Christian confession of eternal truth."
- Charles Colson "Kingdoms In Conflict" (p 311)

April 12th, 2007

"Collaboration with power, whether Communist or not, is always ruinous for the church. If the church exists, if it is to have legitimacy in the eyes of the people, it must always stand erect as a counter-power to a political power."
- Jacques Ellul, "Lech Walesa and the Social Force of Christianity" (p 5)

"The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of "pluralism" amounts to theological nudism."
- Joseph Sobran "Pensees: Notes for the Reactionary of Tomorrow" National Review, Dec. 31, 1985 (p 48)

February 7th, 2007

"Most fundamentally, our culture, society, government, and law are in the condition they are in, not because of a conspiracy, but because the church has forsaken its duty to be the salt of the culture."
- Francis Shaeffer "A Christian Manifesto" (p 56)