Neal

“All sin is equally wrong, but not all sin is equally bad.”
― Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin

“Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.”
― Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“Satan goes to church more than anybody else because he knows that, at a particular time and place, a corrupt church can devastate the cause of the gospel.”
― Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living