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

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

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

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

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?

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

It's shocking the things we call love.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.