“The word was not so circumscribed in the body as to be there only and nowhere else. He was still the energizing principle of all things as before.”

- Athanasius

“Intellectual honesty consists not in enforcing an impossible neutrality but in assuming neutrality is impossible.”

- J.I. Packer

God against us becomes God for us in God with us, Immanuel.

Pastoral ministry can be dehumanizing because people often relate to pastors based on what they give not on who they are.

“God is known in proportion to the extent that he is loved.”

- Bavinck

Holiness isn’t merely about how far we can get from sin but how close we can get to God.