Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

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.

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

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