Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.

Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

I came alive when I started loving you.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.