Matthew

“The Table of Salvation invites all who are hungry to come and eat. The Table of Salvation restores that which is broken. The Table of Salvation creates a sacred place of nourishment where we come together bound not by common borders but by common need.”
― Steve Wiens, Whole: Restoring What Is Broken in Me, You, and The Entire World

“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“We need to think further about how a Christian understanding of human persons should also shape how we teach, not just what we teach.”
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

“Religion operates on the principle “I obey—therefore I am accepted by God.” But the operating principle of the gospel is “I am accepted by God through what Christ has done—therefore I obey.”
― Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism