The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

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.

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.

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.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.

I meet millions who tell me that they feel demoralized by the decay around us. The hope that each of us has is not in who governs us, or what laws are passed... Our hope is in the power of God working in the hearts of people.