How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.

Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a "thing" in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the "good" of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real value. But for the Christian the value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.