Jeremiah Gilfoy

“Theology is for everyone. Indeed, everyone needs to be a theologian. In reality, everyone is a theologian—of one sort or another. And therein lies the problem. There is nothing wrong with being an amateur theologian or a professional theologian, but there is everything wrong about being an ignorant or a sloppy theologian. Therefore, every Christian should read theology. Theology simply means thinking about God and expressing those thoughts in some way.”
― Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology: A Popular, Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth

“Through no merit of ours, but by His mercy, we have been restored to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of His beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of grace.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“Moralizing is reading the Bible not to learn about Jesus but only to learn principles for how to live life as a good person by following the good examples of some people and avoiding the bad examples of others. That kind of approach to the Scriptures is not Christian, because it treats the Bible like any other book with moral lessons that are utterly disconnected from faith in and salvation from Jesus.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Jesus’s early followers formed a movement of dreamers and visionaries.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art