Andrew Harwell

“what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ.”
― John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy

“A church characterized by a small experience of forgiveness will be characterized by a small expression of love.”
― Peter Hubbard, Love Into Light: The Gospel, the Homosexual and the Church

“The Word brings joy directly and indirectly. Directly by simply showing us the beauty of Christ and his ways and all the good things he has promised to be for us forever. Indirectly by weaning us off the toxic pleasures of the world by means of the superior pleasures of Christ, so that, in purity of heart, we can see the beauty of Christ more clearly.”
― John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy

“To be a Christian is to participate in this very common human enterprise of diagnosis, prescription, and prognosis, but to do so from inside a Christian view of the world, a view that has been constructed from Scripture and that centers on Jesus Christ the Savior, "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). Christian hope centers on Jesus Christ, the Lord of the whole cosmos, the one "through [whom] God was pleased to reconcile to
himself all things" (Col. 1:20). Moreover, classical Christian hope centers on Jesus Christ alone, rejecting his rivals as pseudo-Saviors. Christians trust "no other name under heaven" (Acts 4:12).”
― Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living