Stott on the Wrath of God

It is God’s personal, righteous, constant hostility to evil, his settled refusal to compromise with it, and his resolve instead to condemn it…We need I think to be more grateful to God for his wrath, and to worship him that because his righteousness is perfect he always reacts to evil in the same unchanging, predictable, uncompromising way.  Without his moral constancy we would enjoy no peace.

John R.W. Stott, The Message of Ephesians (Downer's Grove: IVP, 1979) 76.

Bonhoeffer on the Definition of a Christian

"The Christian is the man who no longer seeks his salvation, his deliverance, his justification in himself, but in Jesus Christ alone.  He knows that God's Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him guilty, even when he does not feel his guilt, and God's Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him not guilty and righteous, even when he does not feel that he is righteous at all."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954) 21-22.

West on the "Culture of Death"

"A 'culture of death' is a culture that, failing to recognize the infinite worth of every human person, chooses death as a 'solution' to its problems."

Christopher West, Theology of the Body For Beginners (West Chester PA: Ascension Press, 2009) 13