Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.

Love God with all your mind.

When God chooses to create somebody, he or she has an impact on other people's choices and it might be that they have an impact on their decisions to trust Christ or not.

We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for God and his creation, to be let loose in the world.

No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.

The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.

Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give.

Can I keep you, Avery Connor? Will you be mine?

Acceptance.Good and bad, Fortune and misfortune, Pleasure and pain, I want it all, Because it's mine.

If you Love Happy Life, Save EARTH from getting more dirty & abused.I will be GREEN again … Tree's inner voice

We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.

I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.