We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

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

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

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.

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.