Tony Walker

“desire for union "cannot be because of our imperfection, but because we are made in the image of God; for the more perfect any creature is, the more strong this inclination.”
― Amy Plantinga Pauw, The Supreme Harmony of All: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards

“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

“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

“But when we enquire into what lies beyond the observable universe, when we seek to reflect on the metaphysical, there is no data for us to make use of. We cannot touch, see or hear God directly. Yet the Christian faith is based on the assertion that there once was a time when he chose to speak, and to clothe himself with a body which could be seen and touched. So in the New Testament, John began his first letter with the claim, ‘That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched...we proclaim to you...”
― John R.W. Stott, Basic Christianity