Exchanging the Glory Quotes

“From faith, unto faith: Here in the faithfulness of God, we find His glory and are liberated from our sin and our shame, one stage at a time, from one glory to another. For we have exchanged the folly of self-worship for the glory of the immortal God, and in His glory we find our own.”
― Tim Gallant, Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homosexuality in Romans 1

“If we were blind to all the other ways in which God is kind, joyful, and generous and loves to delight us, the physiology of human sexuality ought to set us straight.”
― Tim Gallant, Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homosexuality in Romans 1

“Contrary to a current popular notion, not all sins are equal (cf., e.g., 1 Cor 5:1; John 19:11; 1 John 5:16, 17). Hitler’s sins really are more serious than those of your neighbor down the street, despite what glib American religious slogans may have led you to believe.”
― Tim Gallant, Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homosexuality in Romans 1

“Just as freedom for a fish is freedom to live within the water and not on dry land, so freedom for the image-bearers of God is freedom to live within His orbit of glory and not within the vanity of some attempted (and impossible) independence. In the end, rebellion does not result in freedom from God (which is utterly impossible); it simply results in captivity to sin and death.”
― Tim Gallant, Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homosexuality in Romans 1

“No matter how keenly powerful the intellect, when founded upon suppression of the truth, it will reason its way into further darkness.”
― Tim Gallant, Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homosexuality in Romans 1

“Knowledge and intelligence have to do with the ability to recognize and grasp facts. Genuine wisdom has to do with the discernment to make proper judgments and the presuppositions required to do so.”
― Tim Gallant, Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homosexuality in Romans 1

“They can still see and taste and smell, and they can still make logical deductions and inductions—again, rebellion usually robs men neither of their physical senses, nor of their intelligence. It robs them of their fundamental wisdom, which is not the same thing.”
― Tim Gallant, Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homosexuality in Romans 1

“What we learn, then, is that the glory of God does not promote a “worm theology” (God is glorious, and therefore men are of no consequence whatsoever). God is the God of glory, and He is so glorious that He imparts a reflective glory upon the human beings made in His own image and likeness.”
― Tim Gallant, Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homosexuality in Romans 1

“The translations usually render the statement along the lines of “how are they to believe in Him of whom they have not heard,” but the “of” does not belong. The reading is literally “how are they to believe Him whom they have not heard?”
― Tim Gallant, Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homosexuality in Romans 1