Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

Before saying 'I disagree' be sure you can say 'I understand.'

We're creatures, so we have limits.

Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.

As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of good.

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

To some of us, raised and trained in allowing the Bible to absorb the world (that is, to "see" all of reality through the biblical story), the Bible is quite clear about all really important matters.

Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's actually true humanism.

The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures to assume otherwise.

We're created in God's image, but our souls or spirits are not offshoots of God's own Spirit - as New Age teachers would have us believe.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.