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“This is God’s curse on slavery!—a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing!—a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything good out of such a deadly evil.
“Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.”
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
“Tim Keller writes, “When the church as a whole is no longer seen as speaking to questions that transcend politics, and when it is no longer united by a common faith that transcends politics, then the world sees strong evidence that Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx were right, that religion is really just a cover for people wanting to get their way in the world.”13”
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“our nation’s challenges do not stem from the church’s inability to convince unbelievers to behave like believers. Our challenges stem from the church’s inability to inspire believers to behave like believers.”
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
“Paul says that “they exchanged the truth about God for [the] lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator” (Rom 1:25).24 I read that verse many times before I realized that Paul was declaring the existence of only two ways to live and think—only two ways to believe. Human beings, he says, worship and serve either “the creature” or “the Creator.” Such a simple yet profound contrast, Paul!”
― The Other Worldview: Exposing Christianity's Greatest Threat
― The Other Worldview: Exposing Christianity's Greatest Threat
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