The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.

You can't forget the past.

The absence of the spirit of gratitude in one's heart, always hinders the presence of happiness in one's life.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

To love is everything: love is God.

It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.