Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.
The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.
The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.
Culture is religion incarnate.
I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
The Bible’s power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.
Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.
The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God’s Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.
The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.
Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.
God is dead not because He doesn’t exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn’t.
Today’s marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.
I’d walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.