[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

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.

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within.

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.

Life is always sweet on the positive lane, but you must give it a try and a try and a try for however long it would take to find out.

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

You just have to enjoy life and that's what I like to do.

There's just this stage in a guy's life where they need to be free and have fun and just be independent and enjoy their life.

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.