Daniel Piva

“Se perto do final de seu tempo com o aconselhado você não o ajudou a olhar mais para Cristo, o que você fez não foi aconselhamento cristão.”
― Jeremy Pierre, O Pastor e o Aconselhamento: Um guia básico para o pastoreio de membros em necessidade

“Conversely, our duty is that we who confess Jesus Christ take hold of science as an instrument for propagating our faith-conviction.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“Much less may believers retreat to their ecclesiastical corner and, satisfied with simply having faith, abandon the building of the temple of science to unbelievers, as though science does not concern them.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art

“In our scholarly work, we must never substitute pious posturing for actual research and engagement with the evidence. It is an ever-present temptation for Christian scholars engaged in a given debate to present themselves and their position as the “spiritual,” godly, or Christian interpretation or argument. This manner of framing an issue rarely focuses on the evidence itself and regularly serves to alienate the opposing side, whether nonconfessional or other Christian scholars. Such pious posturing also is guilty of committing the fallacy of engaging in an ad hominem argument. You attack the spirituality of your opponent in a given interchange and imply that anyone holding to such a position cannot be spiritual. Pious”
― Andreas J. Kostenberger, Excellence: The Character of God and the Pursuit of Scholarly Virtue