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.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

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

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

To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.