No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.

Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.

We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.

Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.

A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.

At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race.

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.