God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. — David F. Wells Copy Share
“Descartes argued “I think, therefore I am,” and people after Freud translated that into the modern vernacular by saying, “I feel, therefore I am… — David F. Wells Copy Share
Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks… — David F. Wells Copy Share
Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything… — David F. Wells Copy Share
“As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is to know… — David F. Wells Copy Share
“Our world is being shaken to its very foundations. Instead of offering great thoughts about God, the meaning of reality, and the gospel, there… — David F. Wells Copy Share
What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just… — David F. Wells Copy Share
“In fact, when we listen to the church today, at least in the West, we are often left with impression that Christianity actually has… — David F. Wells Copy Share
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes. — David F. Wells Copy Share
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to… — David F. Wells Copy Share
Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined… — David F. Wells Copy Share
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil. — David F. Wells Copy Share
There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world,… — David F. Wells Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that… — David F. Wells Copy Share
