Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.
Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.
We need to mock false gods publicly.
The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.