Christopher Esget > Christopher's Quotes

“Man is not happy by virtue of his being. Rather, his whole existence is determined precisely by the non possession of ultimate gratification.”
― Josef Pieper

“It is not possible to understand Luther as grounding the blessed exchange in the fact of the believer’s union with Christ. To do so would deny that the justitia aliena is imputed and would put the two motifs in opposition to each other. Furthermore, union with Christ is the result of justification, not the other way around.”
― Robert D. Preus, Justification and Rome

“The sinner’s justification cannot be demonstrated psychologically.”
― Herman Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors: Volume 1

“the world is full of slackers who only turn out when the weather suits them.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Works of P.G. Wodehouse

“whatever the Roman Church may be otherwise, she wants to be and also is church of the cross, church of the Crucified, whose sacrificial death plays a greater part in its life and thought than in many Protestant Churches.”
― Herman Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors: Volume 1

“all of the work on the external structures of the church must flow not from what we wish for ourselves in a church, but from that which through the grace of God is still present in the church, in the true evangelical church, and with the great soberness in which the church orders of the Reformation can be an example for us.”
― Herman Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors: Volume 1

“It is indeed not we who can preserve the church. Nor was it our ancestors, and it will not be those who come after us. But it has been, is now, and will be the one who said, ‘I am with you always, even to the end of the age”
― Herman Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors: Volume 1

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In my 35 years of studying moral psychology, I have come to see this as one of humanity's greatest problems: we are too quick to anger and too slow to forgive. We are also hypocrites who judge others harshly while automatically justifying our own bad behavior.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness