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Prejudices are errors born of ignorance, self-absorption, resentment, and fear—all stances incompatible with the active love of neighbor enjoined on Muslims and Christians alike by their common God. —Miroslav Volf, Allah: A Christian Response, 203.

Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from his fruit, and no effective witness without his power. As a body without breath is [...]

The infinite God has no boundaries and our minds cannot set limits to him or to his love. —Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer, 79.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it. —Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, 219.

Ellul’s The Subversion of Christianity is just too good to contain within one Weekend Wisdom post. Here’s the last of five good quotes: Believers, then, are those who have the wisdom and strength to rob material realities of their seductive power, to unmask them for what they are, no more, and to put them in [...]

Ellul’s The Subversion of Christianity is just too good to contain within one Weekend Wisdom post. Here’s the fourth of five good quotes: Freedom is hard to live with. It is terrible. It is a venture. It devours and demands. It is a constant battle, for around us there are always traps to rob us [...]

Ellul’s The Subversion of Christianity is just too good to contain within one Weekend Wisdom post. Here’s the third of five good quotes: Today, as under Constantine, Christians do exactly the same. They first take up political or moralistic positions and then toss in some theology to justify themselves, to give themselves a good conscience, [...]

Ellul’s The Subversion of Christianity is just too good to contain within one Weekend Wisdom post. Here’s the second of five good quotes: God does not reveal by means of a philosophical system or a moral code or a metaphysical construction. He enters human history and accompanies his people. —Jacques Ellul, The Subversion of Christianity, [...]

Ellul’s The Subversion of Christianity is just too good to contain within one Weekend Wisdom post. Here’s the first of five good quotes: Each generation thinks it has finally discovered the truth, the key, the essential nub of Christianity by veneering itself with the dominant influence or modeling itself on it. —Jacques Ellul, The Subversion [...]

We tend to magnify failure, in others as well as in ourselves, because we so often look at the effects of sin rather than at the wonder of grace. —Ray S. Anderson, Judas and Jesus: Amazing Grace for the Wounded Soul, 27.