Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.