Shane Goodyear

“You asked for my hands, that you might use them for your purpose. I gave them for a moment, then withdrew them, for the work was hard. You asked for my mouth to speak out against injustice. I gave you a whisper that I might not be accused. You asked for my eyes to see the pain of poverty. I closed them, for I did not want to see.”
― Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Worship: Letting the Gospel Shape Our Practice

“From this dogma of satisfaction that of indulgences takes its”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth, and my rebellious ways: according to your love remember me, for you are good, O Lord. . . . For the sake of your name, O Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. The troubles of my heart have multiplied; free me from my anguish. Look upon my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins. (from Ps. 25:6–7, 11, 16–18)”
― Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Worship: Letting the Gospel Shape Our Practice

“we are not to look to what men in themselves deserve, but to attend to the image of God, which exists in all, and to which we owe all honour and love.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion