Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.