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“Literature in the West arose from liturgy.”
― Peter Leithart

“What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?”
― Abraham Kuyper, The Work of the Holy Spirit

“The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.”
― Abraham Kuyper, The Work of the Holy Spirit

“To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.”
― Abraham Kuyper, The Work of the Holy Spirit

“That Christ's Baptism was not a mere form, but the fulfilling of all righteousness, proves that He descended into the water burdened with our sins.”
― Abraham Kuyper, The Work of the Holy Spirit

“It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.”
― Abraham Kuyper, The Work of the Holy Spirit

“We believe that our salvation depends solely upon God's work in us, and not upon our testimony; and the little child with stammering lips, but wrought upon by the Holy Spirit, will precede vain scribes into the Kingdom of Heaven.”
― Abraham Kuyper, The Work of the Holy Spirit

“Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.”
― George MacDonald, Adela Cathcart

“If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.”
― George MacDonald, Adela Cathcart

“The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.”
― Martin Luther, Lectures on Genesis: Chapters 15-20

“How can a reason which hates God be called sound?”
― Martin Luther

“It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men.”
― George MacDonald, Adela Cathcart

“The radical significance of Christ's substitutionary Priesthood does not lie in the fact that His perfect Self-offering perfects and completes our imperfect offerings, but that these are displaced by His completed Self-offering. We can only offer what has already been offered on our behalf, and offer it by the only mode appropriate to such a substitutionary offering, by prayer, thanksgiving, and praise.”
― T.F. Torrance

“When we speak of the Church as the Body of Christ we are saying that it is given such union with Christ that it becomes a communion filled and overflowing with the divine love.”
― T.F. Torrance

“One cannot pass without interruption from Christ to the Church. The Cross stands between. In being the Body of Christ, the Church meets her Lord; she does not prolong Him, but she expresses Him here and now. She does not replace Him, but makes Him visible, demonstrates Him without being confounded with Him.”
― T.F. Torrance

“There can be no more laying of foundations, any more than there can be other incarnations or crucifixions of Christ or rebaptism.”
― T.F. Torrance

“We are united to Christ who is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, and participate in the risen Humanity of Christ so that we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh.”
― T.F. Torrance

“Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.”
― T.F. Torrance

“This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.”
― Martin Luther

“True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.”
― Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, 14 Vols

“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.”
― C.S. Lewis