The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.