No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.

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.

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

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.

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?

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

Ah, but when one predator leaves, another inevitably will take its place. A void never remains a void for long.

You know a lot about math, " I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Right along the lines of "Hey, you have hair and it's red and curly." Real smooth.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette.

We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.