Michael S. Horton

Quotes

• “Monastic spirituality concentrated on private disciplines, as if detaching oneself from "the world" (i.e. society) might...”
• “The greatest threat to Christ-centered witness even in churches that formally affirm sound teaching is what British evan...”
• “Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of th...”
• “We want big results-sooner rather than later. And we've forgotten that God showers his extraordinary gifts through ordin...”
• “God’s downward descent to us in grace reversed by our upward ascent in pragmatic enthusiasm, we are increasingly becomin...”
• “In American religion, as in ancient Gnosticism, there is almost no sense of God’s difference from us—in other words, his...”
• “Regardless of the official theology held on paper, moralistic preaching (the bane of conservatives and liberals alike) a...”
• “If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evi...”
• “If we fail to recognize there is a unified whole to Scripture, we will have only a pile of pieces. Simplistic slogans, f...”
• “God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, p...”
• “When the focus becomes ‘What would Jesus do?’ instead of ‘What has Jesus done?’ the [conservative/liberal] labels no lon...”