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

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.

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 seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

I like the idea of characters without shame, who hold nothing back.

If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

The 'Idea of India' is an India of opportunity and aspiration. An India where: all are prosperous and happy, all are free from illness.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.