Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.

You should be your best critic and coach.

Trolls must continually feed their bottomless need, so be strong and patiently wait out their fires of hatred for eventually they eat their own.

They sicken of calm who know the storm.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

A trick I've learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.