I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God’s supreme triumph of good over evil.
Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’ – it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can’t show respect for religion in public – or you risk being hauled into court.
Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing – since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
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.