You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.
Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.
Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air.
Truth carries with it confrontation.
Belief does not change what is.
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.
Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.
Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man’s life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning.
A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.
This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.
In God’s world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.
The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.
The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
If I’m going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.