Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

A good lecturer is shaped from a good researcher with good philosophy, but not vice verse.

Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet

We have shared those values, we continue to share those values and obviously, we will continue to cooperate with the new administration [of the U.S].

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.

This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

I just love music. I love all kinds of music, and I was exposed to it, me and my siblings, from the time we were in utero.

I want to be your personal penguin. Please?

Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.