Q. Wherein lies the sinfulness of neglecting prayer? — A. It is a practical denial of God, a robbing him of his honour, a contempt of Christ as Mediator, a ruining of ourselves and others, etc. Psalm 9:17 and 10:4.

John Brown of Haddington, Questions and Answers on the Shorter Catechism, 334.

But what if we don’t reduce love and goodness to chemicals in the brain, nor to the whims of powerful people who get to set the rules; what if love and goodness flow from the transcendent God? Returning to [John] Owen: “The sole reason why there is such a thing as love in the world among the creatures, angels or men, — that God ever implanted it in the nature of rational creatures, — was, that it might shadow and represent the ineffable, eternal love that the Father had unto the Son, and the Son unto the Father, by the Spirit. Our experiences shadow something greater, deeper, fuller than themselves.

Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 68.

Embrace love which is God, and embrace God with love.

Augustine, On the Trinity, ed. John E. Rotelle, trans. Edmund Hill, in The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, 8.12, p. 253.

Learning to recognize the arc of Christian life modeled and strengthened in corporate worship, we follow a movement from calling to benediction, all in Christ and as part of his body.

Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 51.

And, if one does not accept His birth from a Virgin, how can he accept His resurrection from the dead?

St. Irenaeus of Lyons, On the Apostolic Preaching, 64.

Read the divine scriptures constantly. In fact, never let the sacred volume out of your hand. Learn what you have to teach.

St Jerome, Epistle 52

And the Christian resists all racist pride, not on the basis of the evolutionary dogma of man’s greatness, but the biblical doctrine of creation and the fall.

G. I. Williamson, The Westminster Confession of Faith: for Study Classes, 58.

Consider how Eusebius juxtaposes two astonishing catches of fish. He connects Luke’s miraculous catch early in Jesus’s ministry (Luke 5:4–7), with John’s similar narrative set after Jesus’s resurrection (John 21:1–6, 11). Eusebius of course recognizes the differences between these two narratives. Yet he nonetheless juxtaposes Luke’s miraculous catch of fish—and its associated call to “catching people” (Luke 5:10)—with Jesus’s renewed calling of the disciples after his resurrection in John. By prioritizing narrative parallels between the two accounts, Eusebius invites us to recognize theological continuity in Jesus’s calling of his disciples before and after the resurrection.

Reading the Gospels with Eusebius

Idols are a danger not only because they are unworthy of worship but because we become like what we worship (e.g., Pss 115:8, 135:18). Consequently, while God calls us to be conformed to the image of the good and loving God, worshipping an idol starts us down the path of becoming deformed in the image of a false deity.

Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 46.

So, by means of the obedience by which He obeyed unto death, hanging upon the tree, He undid the old disobedience occasioned by the tree.

St. Irenaeus of Lyons, On the Apostolic Preaching, 62.