Gregory Johnston

“Prayer, Communion, fellowship, and Bible reading don’t attract large crowds. So we start adding elements that will attract people. We accomplish a goal, but it is the wrong goal. There comes a point when so many additions are made that you can no longer call it a church.”
― Francis Chan, We Are Church

“Holiness without love is not God’s kind of holiness. And love without holiness is not God’s kind of love. Our prophetic priestly function of speaking to God’s people requires us to identify with the people, to have a passion for their salvation, and to have a compassion that will cause us even to suffer for their sake.”
― Haddon W. Robinson, The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching: A Comprehensive Resource for Today's Communicators

“The Devil, dearest daughter, is the instrument of My Justice to torment the souls who have miserably offended Me. And I have set him in this life to tempt and molest My creatures, not for My creatures to be conquered, but that they may conquer, proving their virtue, and receive from Me the glory of victory. And no one should fear any battle or temptation of the Devil that may come to him, because I have made My creatures strong, and have given them strength of will, fortified in the Blood of my Son, which will, neither Devil nor creature can move, because it is yours, given by Me.”
― Catherine of Siena, Dialog of Catherine of Siena - Enhanced Version

“People often think of “miracles” as the “invasion” of the natural order by a force from outside. That wasn’t how the early Christians saw it. For them, dramatic and otherwise inexplicable healings were seen as evidence of new creation, of the Creator himself at work in a fresh way.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul: A Study of the Apostle Paul's Life and Legacy