Bible Quote by Douglas Wilson

We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the Bible. The…

— Dave Hunt

“There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

“If Christians have learned anything from our rocky two-thousand-year theological history, it’s that we make the most beautiful things ugly when we try to…

— Rachel Held Evans

The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in itself. Poetry,…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Whitman and the Bible are no more obscene than Nature herself—no more obscene than a manure pile, out of which come roses and cherries.…

— Franklin J. Meine

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

— Augustus William Hare

The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it,…

— Michel de Montaigne

The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total…

— C. S. Lewis

“Amid an array of moral convictions, the indistinguishable character of the church undermines its claims of a superior—indeed ontologically true—moral vision. On the broad…

— Mark Labberton

“At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do…

— C.S. Lewis

Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to…

— Karen Armstrong

“We develop a taste for God’s standards only by disciplining our minds, hands, money, and time. In God’s economy, what we love we will…

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield