The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.

We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted.

The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.