David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

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

— David F. Wells

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

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

“We are summoned to know him only on his terms. He is not known on our terms. This summons is heard in…

— David F. Wells

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

— David F. Wells

God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the…

— David F. Wells