No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.