Religion Quotes by David F. Wells

11 Religion quotes by David F. Wells

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David F. Wells distills his theological concerns into eleven succinct statements, perfect for a brisk read on contemporary religion.

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What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

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The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant,…

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“There are a surprising number who get their spiritual uplift week by week only from the comfort of their own living rooms…

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We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but…

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What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that…

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Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have…

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“Our world is being shaken to its very foundations. Instead of offering great thoughts about God, the meaning of reality, and the…

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There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the…

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“In fact, when we listen to the church today, at least in the West, we are often left with impression that Christianity…

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The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is…

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“Descartes argued “I think, therefore I am,” and people after Freud translated that into the modern vernacular by saying, “I feel, therefore…

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In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

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Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks…

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Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything…

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“As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is to know…

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“Our world is being shaken to its very foundations. Instead of offering great thoughts about God, the meaning of reality, and the gospel, there…

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What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just…

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“In fact, when we listen to the church today, at least in the West, we are often left with impression that Christianity actually has…

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Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

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The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to…

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Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined…

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God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

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There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world,…

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What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

David F. Wells

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We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that…

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