Brian Westerbur

“The stony soil of our heart, the rock foundation of our corrupt human nature, need not, therefore, be the basis for judgment upon us. It can be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, just as the hill of Golgotha was when drops of blood fell upon it and it was transformed from a place of execution to the Rock of Atonement.”
― Bo Giertz, The Hammer of God

“The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“...when Paul says in Romans 4:3, 5, 9, and 22 that 'faith is counted as righteousness,' he does not mean that our faith is our righteousness. He means that our faith unites us to Christ so that God's righteousness in Christ is reckoned to us.”
― John Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry

“For the Spirit is required to understand the whole of the Scripture and every part of it.”
― Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will