Quotable

                                                                                                                                                                        Vol. VI, No. 6, August 1993

"Secular humanism, which claims to exalt man, actually impedes his becoming human in terms of these personal qualities. Christianity, which starts by humbling man as a sinner, has a directly humanizing effect on him at all these points. Christianity takes man seriously as an immortal soul whom God is preparing for glory; it gives him a sense of the transcendent; it shows him that eternal issues are involved in temporal choices; it draws him into a love relationship of praise and thanks, worship and work, with the Father and the Son through the spirit. . ."

J. I. Packer and Thomas Howard in Christianity: The True Humanism.