If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.

He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depends on nobody. He is neither helped by our faith nor hindered by our unbelief.

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame.

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.

If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of your own future.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love.