Jay

“if we latter-day believers are not able and willing to be faithful in the relatively small trials we face now, there is no reason to think we will have what it takes to endure serious persecution in the future.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“One can never satisfy a closed mind”
― Craig S. Keener, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts

“In other words, The­ol­ogy is prac­ti­cal: espe­cially now. In the old days, when there was less edu­ca­tion and dis­cus­sion, per­haps it was pos­si­ble to get on with a very few sim­ple ideas about God. But it is not so now. Every­one reads, every­one hears things dis­cussed. Con­se­quently, if you do not lis­ten to The­ol­ogy, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones — bad, mud­dled, out-of-date ideas. For a great many of the ideas about God which are trot­ted out as novel­ties to-day are simply the ones which real The­olo­gians tried cen­turies ago and rejected.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Unity without truth isn't even unity - it's pure individualism”
― Natasha Crain, Faithfully Different: Regaining Biblical Clarity in a Secular Culture