Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself.

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

The development of the artist provides a profound model of the process of maturation.

How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our Father, how did we ever become the socially conservative stiflers of innovation that we are so notoriously perceived to be?

Left to their own devices, most organizations tend toward a sort of sociological conservatism that will increasingly forgo engagement with their context in favor of preserving what they see as their repository of inherited ideas. In other words, they turn away from missional engagement and toward an increasingly traditionalist, sentimental interpretation of reality. Instead of looking forward to a possible future of which they are called to be a part, they look back to an idealized past.

This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

Advent creates people, new people.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ

Justification is the means whereby we appropriate the saving act of God in the past, and sanctification the promise of God's activity in the present and future... Justification is primarily concerned with the relation between man and the law of God, sanctification with the Christian's separation from the world until the second coming of Christ... Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification is his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.