Occupation: Professor Birth: 1937
We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions..
The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from t….
The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last..
To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of ….
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more ….
Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always respo….
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus i….
Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only prin….
Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness..
God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his….
Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching a….
Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp..
No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history….
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the….
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas..
We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well..
The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither..
It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete thing….
Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God..
On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do somethi….
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them..