“So what is the relationship of grace to hard, moral effort? Well, hard, moral effort is grace. It is not every grace, but it is a true grace. It is a gift of God, lest any should boast” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 85).

“God has not left us to our own resources in the study of his Word. There is the never-failing promise and the ever-present ministry of the Holy Spirit. He is the author of the Word and it is his peculiar prerogative to illumine the Scriptures and to seal its truth upon our hearts” (John Murray, Collected Works, Vol. 1, 8).

“One does not need an advanced degree–even a high-school degree–to be a good husband and father.”   R.R. Reno in First Things (March, 2015).

“I have said earlier in these discussions that the works of the flesh are manifest (Gal. 5:19). We know that the works of righteousness are also manifest (John 3:21). All this is simply to say that midnight and high noon are not that difficult to tell apart” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 72).

“We do well to peruse our great catechisms and creeds and textbooks and not be carried away by the pedagogical mush to which we are in these days subjected. But if we rely upon such a reservoir of knowledge we are in a dangerous and slippery position. Thought and life are too complex to be adequately met by any such reservoir. The means God has provided for every exigency that may arise the Word of God itself” (John Murray, Collected Writings, Vol. 1, 7).

“When the eternal Word of God became a man, He thereby honored the material world and did so in a very permanent way” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 64).

“Systematic theology is nothing less than remembering what you read in other passages while you are reading this passage” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 53).

“Worldview thinking radiated from him [G.K. Chesterton] like heat from a stove. That is what systematic thinking should look like, but it hardly ever does” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 53).

Hope thou in God (Psalm 42:11).

“In order to speak as the Bible speaks, we must get more comfortable with biblical paradox and less comfortable with the tidiness of our own systems” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 49).