“We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame and crush them.” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“Perversion is an ends-and-purposes disease. Most broadly understood, perversion is the turning of loyalty, energy, and desire away from God and God’s project in… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“God is great and God is good, but God is also elusive and unpredictable,” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“Satan goes to church more than anybody else because he knows that, at a particular time and place, a corrupt church can devastate the… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the preacher is hoping to acquire from her reading what I call “middle wisdom.” Let’s say that middle wisdom consists of insights into… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“To recall an image of John Calvin, the preacher is someone the church sends to the Bible week by week to dig up part… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“On Thanksgiving Day, 2011, my pastor Peter Jonker preached a marvelous sermon on Psalm 65 with an introduction from the life of Seth MacFarlane,… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
