You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter.

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.