Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God's descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace.