Grace Sparks

“A religion that needs state power to enforce obedience to its beliefs is a religion that has lost confidence in the power of its Deity.”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel

“One last point. Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not when you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.”
― CS Lewis

“The problem was that, from the very beginning, Christian values were always more popular in American culture than the Christian gospel.”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent