Fred Smith

“only theology supports an ultimate coherency that can embrace equally the true, the tentative, and the flawed, as reality itself embraces them—”
― Marilynne Robinson, What Are We Doing Here?

“A Christian doctrine of creation is not dependent on geographic precision; however, it is not wholly independent of geographic accuracy. Belief in creation has to refer to current real-world places or it refers to nothing.”
― Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race

“As a last word and as my bequest, let me call to you in Huguenot style: ‘Résistez!’ Discipleship of the Crucified leads necessarily to resistance to idolatry on every front. This resistance is and must be the most important mark of Christian freedom.”
― Susan Grove Eastman, Oneself in Another: Participation and Personhood in Pauline Theology

“But God does not wish the aids, which he appoints for us, to be despised, and does not allow contempt of them to go unpunished. And we must keep in mind here, that not only is Scripture given to us, but interpreters and teachers are also added to help us.”
― John R.W. Stott, Understanding the Bible