“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.”

When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable… what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.

Truth by definition excludes.

The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it’s your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

God will not place a burden on a man’s shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

God created the world with a great variety of flowers of all colours.