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Proverbs 6:16-19
Romans 7:15-18
Galatians 5:13-14
“Should we not at least consider the possibility that this poor result is not in spite of what we teach and how we teach, but precisely because of it? Might that not lead to our discerning why the power of Jesus and his gospel has been cut off from ordinary human existence, leaving it adrift from the flow of his eternal kind of life?” –Dallas Willard
”The current situation in which faith professed has little impact on the whole of life, is not unique to our times, nor is it a recent development. But it is currently at an acute stage. History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essentially concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally. That is where we find ourselves today.” –Dallas Willard
”It is clear that all humans (other than Jesus) do in fact perform acts which constitute a refusal of the vocation to be genuinely, God-reflectingly human, and which therefore “miss the mark” of that lovely, fully human life which is not only glorifying to God in itself but which reflects that glory powerfully and creatively into the world.” –N.T. Wright
“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” –Mark Twain