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We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge
Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out?
Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.
What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love.
For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.
Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.
The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.
Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.
The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.
Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.
Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.
When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.
If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
In Christian engagement, the goal is to win the person who is of the other worldview - not to destroy the person.
Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.
The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.
To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.
The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.
Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.
Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.
One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.
When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.
There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.
Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.
Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.
The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.
Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate.
Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.
Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.
Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.
We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.