Nowadays, people have a habit of relativizing religion, reducing it to "your truth" versus "my truth" versus "their truth," and that's the end of it.

Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.

If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.

Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.

Our value is built into us, and nothing and no one can take it away.

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.

Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.

A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist.

The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation.

Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.