Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus.

You become like what you worship

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once we release Paul's justification-language from the burden of having to describe `how someone becomes a Christian', however, this is simply no longer a problem. There is no danger of imagining that Christian faith is after all a surrogate `work', let alone a substitute form of moral righteousness. Faith is the badge of covenant membership, not something someone `performs' as a kind of initiation test.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

Funny but, for me, the Bible was a hobby before it was a serious study. It was the thing I'd sneak off and do on the side, feeling rather guilty because I wasn't doing my real school homework or whatever... and never thinking I would make it a life's work.