Cornelius Plantinga Quotes
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All sin is equally wrong, but not all sin is equally bad.
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To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.
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The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.
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The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.
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God is great and God is good, but God is also elusive and unpredictable
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People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.
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Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.
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To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.
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“Human society,” as C. S. Lewis puts it, “inside which minimum decency passes for heroic virtue and utter corruption for pardonable imperfection."
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Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.
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The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover God’s purposes for us and to make them our own.
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Satan goes to church more than anybody else because he knows that, at a particular time and place, a corrupt church can devastate the cause of the gospel.
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Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.