There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.

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

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

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society. We have been relegated to a cultural backwater, where we are meant to paddle around content in the knowledge that we are merely allowed to exist.