All David F. Wells Quotes
- God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil. Evil
- There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with… All
- What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our… Choices
- The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is… Benign
- Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the… Broker
- Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes. Evil
- 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… Bring
- What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The… Adore
- We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it… Adapt
- In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. Character
- What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached? Gained
- Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of… Attitude
- The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss… Central