Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or e….
Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man..
I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice..
Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners..
Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible ….
No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul..
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accomm….
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as….
The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry..
If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him..
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet….
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind..
We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us..
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak mu….
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow..
Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power..
Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposit….
Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car ….
I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect….
Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness..
A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being..