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

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.

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.

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

God's Word makes it very clear that the state of our hearts determines the quality of our "listening ears.

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

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Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

[Molecular gastronomy] was a great trend, because it experimented with food. The benchmark was [former elBulli head chef] Ferran Adrià, and now he is no longer there it is harder to gauge.

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four.

The monsters are in your own head

You can't trust a vampire, trust me

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.