We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.
Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
Isn’t it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out?
The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God’s framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...
What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.
Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.
Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.
The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
Everyone – pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist – has to answer these questions: ‘Where did I come from? What is life’s meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?’ Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.