James Wheeler

“a handsome young man, with black hair and eyes, and a suspicion of beard and whiskers.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Since God did not create out of necessity, God's relationship to creation is not held together through a master-slave relationship in which bondage and necessity are the central features. Instead... the creature's existence is a gift. It is the product of the sovereignty or freedom of God. It is just this freedom that the human being images as the mirror of the very Being, which is the very act, of freedom that brought it forth.”
― J. Kameron Carter, Race: A Theological Account

“The abundance of the gifts of the Spirit . . . does not mean that the believer will be transferred from a struggling faith to a purely triumphant faith but that the believer will become a participant, by the Spirit, in the glorification of Christ,” a glorification, we recall, that entails a Cross.”
― Frederick Dale Bruner, The Gospel of John: A Commentary

“Evil does not exist in isolation. It is a product of amorality by consensus.”
― Peter Z. Malkin, Eichmann in My Hands: A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner