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Atheism thrives on bad religion.
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.
Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.
We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .
In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.
We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.
We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.
I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.
Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.
The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.
As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.
Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.