Tony Walker

“People participate in community in different ways, and people move among community at different rates. We all have our own pace, and there are times in our individual lives of faith when we move at different speeds. Sometimes our progress comes in leaps and bounds, but most of the time it feels slow. It usually takes introverts longer to attach. But the point is not how fast we’re moving but that we are moving.”
― Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

“The key issue is this: Must we have a comprehensive knowledge of God in order to have true knowledge of God? One of the first principles in systematic theology regarding God is the doctrine of His incomprehensibility. This means that no human can now or will ever have a totally exhaustive, comprehensive knowledge and understanding of God. God is infinite in His excellence, and we, even in heaven, will not have an infinite perspective to understand Him. We are finite creatures, and by virtue of our creatureliness, our understanding of God is limited. If, indeed, a comprehensive picture of God were required to have a true understanding of Him, this would mean that we could have no true knowledge of God because we certainly don’t have a comprehensive knowledge of Him. Therefore, the fact that our knowledge of God is partial does not mean that our knowledge is untrue.”
― R.C. Sproul, Does God Exist?

“And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Yes, thought Montag, that’s the one I’ll save for noon. For noon. . . . When we reach the city.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Yet it would be a failure of imagination if we were to start out-as today's histories sometimes do-by simply judging people of the past for having outlooks that are not like our own. Rather, we must first try to enter sympathetically into an earlier world and to understand its people. Once we do that we will be in a far better position both to learn from them and to evaluate their outlooks critically.”
― George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards