Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

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!

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.

I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.

If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love.