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"Why do people suppress the evidence of God? The God described in the Bible goes against the grain of today's popular notions of spirituality. Many people may be receptive to the idea of a non- personal spiritual force that they can tap into. They might be willing to consider a great pantheistic pool of spirituality of which they are a part. But they are far less comfortable with the concept of a living, active, personal God who knows them, wants to interact with them, and has his own views about what they are doing with their lives." (Nancey Pearcey, Finding Truth, 32)

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"The acceptance of the dogma of papal infallibility by Vatican 1 created, as already observed, a great gulf between Roman Catholicism and the rest of Christendom. In order to better understand the anti- Protestant feelings created during this council we may refer to one of its several dramatic scenes. In one of the council sessions the schema on modern nationalism was presented as one of the errors brought about by Protestantism. Joseph Georg Strossmayer, a former professor of Canon law and now Bishop, objected to this unjust charge. Referring to the schema under discussion he said, 'This judgment seems to me to be consistent neither with truth nor with charity. Bishop Strossmayer brought to the audience's attention that modern nationalism originated in France in direct opposition to the Christian faith, which Christians hold in common. The event is vividly portrayed in the following summary: 'The greatest storm broke out on March 22nd 1870 when Bishop Joseph Georg Strossmayer affirmed in the great hall of the Council that even among Protestants there were many individuals who loved Jesus. When he went on to dispute the feasibility of deciding dogmatic questions by majority rule, the majority shouted him down. Many cried out, ' Lucifer, Anathema, anathema!' Others screamed, 'A second Luther! Throw him out!' All the Infallibilists loudly demanded, 'Down with him, down with him!'" (V. Norskov Olsen, Papal Supremacy and American Democracy, p.94-95)

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"…(A)postasy from truth in areas of doctrine also brings with it loss of interpretive soundness. There is a correlation between obedience to what the Most High has taught in the Bible and the Holy Spirit's guidance of people's understanding…Doctrinal apostasy offends the Comforter, so that he will no longer guide the student of the Bible into all truth, according to the Savior's promise (Jn. 16:13). For studying prophecy, a special preserve of the Holy Spirit, the result cannot fail to be intellectual confusion." (Edwin de Kock, The Use and Abuse of Prophecy, 7,13)

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"We Christians have not only neglected our privileges as sovereigns and left the government of the world to anybody who might claim the divine right to rule it, but we have allowed the world to come into and govern the church. In our haste to make Christianity popular with the world we have not only kept our hands out of its affairs but we have allowed it to put its hands into our affairs. We have made the most fatal of all blunders -the blunder of compromise. And we have made it over and over again. For more than 1600 years compromise has been our besetting sin. We began by compromising with the pagans. We compromised with pagan worship until our worship became more pagan than Christian. We compromised with pagan philosophy until our philosophy became more pagan than Christian. And from the day that we began this unholy flirtation until now, whenever the spiritual power of the church has cooled it has immediately begun to look around for a new compromise. And unlike the burnt child who dreads the fire we have never profited by our terrible experience. The church has suffered more from compromises than from all other evils put together, yet we seem to have made more compromises in the last generation than in any like period since the day of our first great surrender to paganism. We have compromised with wealth, we have compromised with society, and we have compromised with a materialistic science…And today, we have the humiliating spectacle of ministers standing up in Christian pulpits and declaring that where the words of Jesus do not conform to science we must accept science and not Jesus." (Edward Pell, Our Troublesome Religious Questions, 1916, p.35,36)

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"The world has convinced us that we are healthy when we're not sick, and that we're happy when we're no depressed. Life, with its normal range of emotions, has been pathologized and people are labeled with so many disorders…anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, social anxiety disorder, mood disorder and the list continues. In fact, illness is the absence of health and depression is the absence of happiness." (Cornelle du Plessis, Finding The Gift in Depression by changing your perspective, p.6)

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"Faith never stops to look at circumstances,
or ponder results; it only looks at God."
(Charles H Mackintosh, Genesis. P. 96, 1880)

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The trap of the contemporary must be avoided. " The world is ever with us, and we commonly err by reading the headlines of the newspaper into our views of prophecy. Instant relevance is what we desire. But not all of the prophecy need to be relevant to us. Some of it, perhaps most of it, may have been relevant to those who have gone on before us." (William Shea's introduction to The Use and Abuse of Prophecy, 5)

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"Rejecting any evidence that demonstrates gender differences have a biological basis, feminist activists oppose using gender as a principle of social order. This brand of feminism considers it inherently sexist to use gender in any manner whatsoever to organize society. Any sex role differentiation is viewed as a method by which certain human beings oppress others. Instead, they envision a new kind of society that completely transforms the relationships among men, women, and children so that there is conformance to the feminist ideology rather than letting what is natural or historically customary dictate family relations" ( James L. Hirsen, The Coming Collision, 1999, p.30)

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"The present neglect of the book of Revelation by ministers in their private study and public preaching is doubtlessly largely responsible for the small amount of reading and study devoted to it by the laity." (Taylor Bunch, The Seven Epistles of Christ, 1947, p.13)