When God chooses to create somebody, he or she has an impact on other people's choices and it might be that they have an impact on their decisions to trust Christ or not.

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

Love God with all your mind.

We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for God and his creation, to be let loose in the world.

No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.

The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.

Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give.

Can I keep you, Avery Connor? Will you be mine?

Confidently step into the future, knowing that God has got you this far as a promise that He is able to get you beyond.

I breathed in the memory of his lips, the softness of them, and how they felt tracing across my skin, leaving ripples of goosebumps in their wake.

Never allow yourself to become despondent or weary, as you venture along life’s chosen path.

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

World, you are beautifully drest.