Graham Tomlin

A church with a consumer mentality, where the laity are purely passive consumers of whatever is delivered from the front, will rarely be an evangelistic church. (Graham Tomlin, the Provocative Church, pg. 131)

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Brian McLaren

One of my mentors once said to me, ‘Remember, in a pluralistic world, a religion is valued based on the benefits it brings to its nonadherents.’ This surprised me, and I thought about it for days. Many people think the opposite of what my mentor said: that religions offer benefits to adherents and catastrophic threats [...]

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Kenneth Scott Latourette

It is not His teachings which make Jesus so remarkable, although these would be enough to give Him distinction. It is a combination of the teachings with the man Himself. The two cannot be separated. (Kenneth Scott Latourette, historian of Christianity at Yale University)

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C.S. Lewis

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said [...]

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Samuel Butler

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. (Samuel Butler, English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902)

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Paul David Tripp

Sin is not just about willfulness; that is, a conscious stepping over God’s boundaries. Sin is also about blindness; that is, not seeing what needs to be seen to live as God has called me to live. The sinner is both willfully blind and blindly willful. (Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands, p. [...]

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