The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.

Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

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.

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'

The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church.

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.