“We talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.”

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.

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.

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.

Truth by definition excludes.

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

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.

I am only at home in the present.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.

The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.