I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.

Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play.

Everything isn't perfect.

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.