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Belief does not change what is.
The church is something beautiful
Truth carries with it confrontation.
He who loses the arts loses the culture.
We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.
Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air
This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.
Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.
If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.
The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.
The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.
The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.
Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.
In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.
Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.
If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.
Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.
Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.
The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.
...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.
There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.
... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.