It would take a God with equal measures of truth, love, and justice to [give us a metanarrative]. Since I had abandoned that faith in God and considered myself secular, that wasn't a real option for me.

Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.

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

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.

The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.

The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.