If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil and if there is eternity, there can be hell. If it is intellectually dishonest to disbelieve in evil just because it is shocking and uncomfortable, it is the same with hell. Reality has hard corners, surprises, and terrible dangers in it. We desperately need a true road map, not nice feelings, if we are to get home. It is true, as people often say, that "hell just feels unreal, impossible." Yes. So does Auschwitz. So does Calvary.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.