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

“When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality.... Christianity is a system, a consistently thought out and complete view of things. If one breaks out of it a fundamental idea, the belief in God, one thereby breaks the whole thing to pieces: one has nothing of any consequence left in one's hands.... Christian morality is a command: its origin is transcendental ... it possesses truth only if God is truth - it stands or falls with the belief in God. "
Friedrich Nietzsche5”
― Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living

“Perversion is an ends-and-purposes disease. Most broadly understood, perversion is the turning of loyalty, energy, and desire away from God and God’s project in the world: it is the diversion of construction materials for the city of God to side projects of our own, often accompanied by jerry-built ideologies that seek to justify the diversion.”
― 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