There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

Good God, is the man a heathen?’‘Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.

I'm lucky that I haven't been left out in the cold like Mumta Kulkarni or Meghna Kothari.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

The reward is in the risk.