The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.