And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.

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.

The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes, ) which nature cannot repair.

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

My favorite pastime is to write.

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.