I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.

It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.

More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ. This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.

The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.

If true love came at a price, the price would be all worth while if i was spending it on you.

Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.

Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Anyone who takes the time to attentively listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.