Occupation: Author Birth: 1946
It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our ….
You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By….
Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy..
In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic..
It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevi….
Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer..
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one….
The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty..
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capaci….
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fata….
An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth..
Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth..
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance….
When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral la….
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right..
All religions do not point to God.
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in ….
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That s….
We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right..
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..
The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not….