For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves. In the end they would lose even the capacity to despise themselves. Thus, because of the 'death of God', they would confuse heaven with happiness, and happiness with health.

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

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

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