Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.
Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.
If you're a child of God, you do not just go around once on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with t...
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice.
The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The th...
I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.
Foulgrin: If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes. (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)
By eroding their sense of shame we've made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. ...their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been...
The gospel is far greater than most of us imagine.
We don’t pretend all is well. But knowing God’s commands to rejoice in him through his all-sufficient power, we meditate on his Word and call on him to impart his gladness to us. In time God exchanges...
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV)
Lord Foulgrin: You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the h...
God will not be a half husband. He will not be comforted by the fact that we call him Savior when we refuse to follow him as Lord.
You can’t take it with you— but you can send it on ahead.
When hard times come, people should lose their faith in false doctrine, not in God.
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.