Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

We are artists, because God is.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of faith and into his arms. Jesus called his disciples that way - just as a lover elopes with his beloved.