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The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right ... the sovereign right ... to put us where he wants in the battle.

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

The church is something beautiful

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.

This is not an age in which to be a soft Christian.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

When I accept Christ as my Savior ... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

Belief does not change what is.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.

The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.

Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.