Jackson Posey

“Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air. Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. ... We might fancy some children playing on the flat grassy top of some tall island in the sea. So long as there was a wall round the cliff's edge they could fling themselves into every frantic game and make the place the noisiest of nurseries.

But the walls were knocked down, leaving the naked peril of the precipice. They did not fall over; but when their friends returned to them they were all huddled in terror in the centre of the island; and their song had ceased.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“You are constantly preaching to yourself some kind of gospel. You preach to yourself an anti-gospel of your own righteousness, power, and wisdom, or you preach to yourself the true gospel of deep spiritual need and sufficient grace, You preach to yourself an anti-gospel of aloneness and inability, or you preach to yourself the true gospel of the presence, provisions, and power of an ever-present Christ.”
― Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry

“God is good' therefore does not mean the same as 'God is the cause of goodness' or 'God is not evil' ; it means that what we call 'goodness' in creatures pre-exists in God in a higher way. Thus God is not good because he causes goodness, but rather goodness flows from him because he is good. As Augustine says, 'Because he is good, we exist.”
― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Not even raving lunatics could suggest such a notion: ... This is so obviously ridiculous that I am at a loss for words to answer such nonsense; such depths of folly will spare them any further attack. It would be like using a sword to cut through butter! Why should I exhaust my energy fighting such absurdity?”
― Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit