“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).

“Converting unconverted covenant members is something that God specializes in, and we need to be careful not to resist His work by claiming it is somehow unnecessary” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 48).

“The church is nothing without individual conversions, but the church is not nothing but individual conversions. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 47).

“The new life has political results but is not achieved by political means, which, incidentally, includes ecclesiastical politics. The experience of the new life will always, of necessity, be at the very center of God’s work in the work, because that is what He is doing here” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 43).

“The most hopeful things in humanity to-day are its restlessness, its intensity, its disgust. These are open doors for the Christian preacher. Corinthian habits, Corinthian words, and all the restlessness of the city, it matters not how it is manifested, create the open door for the evangel of Jesus Christ. What is the Gospel for the corrupt city? The Cross and Resurrection, and none other” (G. Campbell Morgan, The Acts of the Apostles, 434).

“Private prayer, lastly, is also the path to a proven shelter, a haven of rest, a mighty fortress, a rock of defense for present adversities and an unknown future. Prayer is a refuge from the storms of life. This is why Satan fears and hates private prayer and will fight with every possible device and argument to keep you from prayer” (James W. Beeke and Joel R. Beeke, Developing a Healthy Prayer Life, 12).