You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I’ve ever said about you.”He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. “Why? I’m all those things and more.

True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.

Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.

All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky...

Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

Redemption is as comprehensive as creation or fall.

Cheer up! You’re a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you’re more loved than you ever dared hope.

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a...

Today. the celebration is for the “victorious”, not the meritorious. The depiction to the youth, is that one can be victorious without merit, and that merit is less notable than victory. The result, is the...

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life...

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in...

we lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.

Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it….In my sleep, a natural death!

As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath the same sap for kind that the Arm of the tree hath,...

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;

It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent

As for the vice of lust – aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my intent is to treat of the imperfections that have to be purged by...

In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers’ wives with eyes hollower than those of suburban streetwalkers; music-hall chorus girls who tip...

Work done by non-Christians always contain some degree of God’s common grace as well as the distortions of sin. Work done by Christians, even if it overtly names the name of Jesus is also to...

I swung my hips around like I unscrewed at the waist.

History is riddled with blood and sin.

The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.

I get it. I haven’t seen much of the real world yet. But let’s say I do get out there… and it turns out that it’s not even worth seeing? Or even worse.. what if...

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God’s general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.

Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato’s safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the...

We owe God a “double debt” incurred by our passive receipt of Adam’s debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a “daring debt” because...

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth…Don’t you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan...

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Revolutions often perpetuate the old evil under a new name.

There is good even in church people. You find it hard to believe, right? Jesus never shut the door on religious people. He just made sure that they understand He was that door, and not...

God’s revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart”.

The curse of the fall didn’t affect only manual work, as we often seem to think. Excessive ambiguity that prevent us from figuring out how to navigate is really a form of confusion. Overload is...

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church. So the church is innately political. This cannot be helped. But...

How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous,...