People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?

The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it's a story we can't let our culture forget.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.