Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting: "Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb" (psalm 139:13). The life of the unborn is the knitting of God, and what He is knitting is a human being in His own image, unlike any other creature in the universe... The destruction of conceived human life - whether embryonic, fetal, or viable - is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God.

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.