[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.

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.

Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville.

I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.

Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

It...is for me?" "Aye. So what say you, lover mine.

If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.