Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.