“The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose.”

“The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.”

“I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?”

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

“It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.”

“Was it not I who populated with them all these pages—just recently no more than white rectangular deserts? Without me, would they ever be seen by those whom I shall lead behind me along the narrow paths of lines?”