The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians... The 'worship' growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself - a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.

The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.