Quotes

Too many attempts
at reconciling Christianity and pop culture . . .
have to do with being seen as ‘relevant’ by the culture on its own terms.
We will never be able to do that.
Pop culture is a rolling stone,
and it waits for no band of Christians
seeking to imitate it or exegete it
RUSSELL D. MOORE

We cannot compensate for being strangers to God
by becoming friends with the culture.
On the contrary, we become our culture’s truest friend
by becoming more aware of the God
who not only engages our culture
but also inspires, critiques, and transforms it
GARY THOMAS

There is thus a continual conflict
between conscience and the world—
“I ought to speak for conscience’ sake; but I dare not speak, for fear of the world.”
The offensive truth must be smoothed, disguised, and intermixed,
until it is attenuated into an insipid, pointless, and inoperative statement.
The spirit of cold refinement,
which gives occasion to this compromising Ministration,
is one of the most baneful hindrances to our efficiency
CHARLES BRIDGES

The church should be neither the master
nor the servant of the state
but its conscience
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

Human justice is not a substitute for
divine justification
WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW

Instead of obliterating the distinction between
the Kingdom and the world,
or on the other hand
withdrawing from the world into a sort of modernized
intellectual monasticism,
let us go forth joyfully, enthusiastically,
to make the world subject to God
J. GRESHAM MACHEN

The soul of the care of the poor
is the care of the poor soul
TERESA OF AVILA

Because the heathen cannot see our faith,
they ought to see our works,
then hear our doctrine,
and then be converted
MARTIN LUTHER

Evangelical Christianity,
for all its biblical vitalities,
does not shape fellowships of redeemed persons to stand out in the world
as community beachheads of the kingdom of God
CARL F. H. HENRY

Behind all lasting social reformation
is spiritual transformation
DONALD G. BLOESCH