It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.

The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.