If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I think the thing we're waiting for is a genius to come forth who can either make a new symbol system which is still modern, or more properly, as symbol systems don't come overnight, a group of people to modify the symbol systems of our day, so that we can use them for our Christian message without a disadvantage.

If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

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

Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

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.