You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.

One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes

The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.

What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.