We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting that we have nothing which we have not received, that grace is a gift, an undeserved favor. We can actually be filled with pride at the eloquence and brilliance of our sermon on humility.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.