The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depends on nobody. He is neither helped by our faith nor hindered by our unbelief.

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together.

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

Fair and softly goes far.

There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.

Sour patch kids gone wild.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.