Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of your ideas makes someone mad, there’s little you can do about it. Jesus’ teaching made some people furious. Just make sure it’s your ideas that offend and not you, that your beliefs cause the dispute and not your behavior.

Our souls - our invisible selves - bear the mark of God Himself. We're like God in that we bear His image.

If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.

We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.

God existed before He made anything else, and He Himself was never made. God is eternal.

Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even if they haven't thought about it much or worked out all the details.

If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.