The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to – ironically-fait h!
You’ll never get to a person’s soul until you understand their hurts.
Every religion at its core is exclusive.
You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.
Whenever you try to break God’s moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others – all while proving His law in the process.
I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God’s call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks.
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.
The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.
Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.
Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge.
I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.
By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.
Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There’s no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.