Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it

Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

Redheaded women buck like goats.

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.