Brian Westerbur

“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

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

“How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“...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