Barb Terpstra

“So you see, Jesus is on both sides. He is on the side of the victims, and he is also on the side of the perpetrators. That is why the Christian gospel is so radical. It is radically inclusive in ways that the politically correct crowd doesn't dream of. The gospel refuses to divide the world up into the correct and the incorrect, the righteous and the unrighteous, the innocent and the guilty. Jesus takes all that into himself.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.”
― Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

“The difference between
religion and the gospel is that God has said no to everybody, so that no one can boast before God.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“Religion, being a human construct, allows
people to create a God after their own image instead of the other way round.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief