Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

There's no way up but down.

For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.