...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade,rhythmically falling from the mountain,carried by its own current--carried where?

In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.

Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.

Christians throughout history have affirmed that lifelong celibacy is a spiritual gift and calling, not a path that should be forced upon someone.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.

This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.

The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty.

We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it.

When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.

It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is enter into it.

In a nutshell, the difference between Christianity and all other belief systems is who you're putting your trust in: in Christ, or in yourself?