...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.

Man is indeed lost, but that does not mean that he is nothing. We must resist humanism, but to make a man a zero is not the right way to resist it ... [The] Christian position is that man is made in the image of God and even though he is now a sinner, he can do things that are tremendous - he can influence history for this life and the life to come, for himself and for others...From the biblical viewpoint, man is lost, but great.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian.

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.