Brian Burchell

“With our own kids, if we are parents, what’s our job? That question could be answered with a hundred valid responses. But at the center, our job is to show our kids that even our best love is a shadow of a greater love. To put a sharper edge on it: to make the tender heart of Christ irresistible and unforgettable. Our goal is that our kids would leave the house at eighteen and be unable to live the rest of their lives believing that their sins and sufferings repel Christ.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

“But I hope you understand why I believe Jesus is the only way. It is because Jesus said that He was the only way, and if I deny that, I deny Him."
Let me just say parenthetically, if you deny that, you deny Him.”
― R.C. Sproul, John

“I have a friend from a conservative Muslim background who visited churches and read the Bible for three years before finally putting his faith in Christ. The decisive moment for him was when he arrived at the book of James. ‘Here,’ he told me, ‘I heard something that sounded like the voice of God, that sounded true, that identified with my daily reality.”
― Andy McCullough, Global Humility: Attitudes for Mission

“Common grace means that nonbelievers often act more righteously than believers despite their lack of faith; whereas believers, filled with remaining sin, often act far worse than their right belief in God would lead us to expect. All this means Christians should be humble and respectful toward those who do not share their faith.”
― Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy