Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.
Real gold fears no fire.
Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
You can’t take it with you— but you can send it on ahead.
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)
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)
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.
God is the Audience of One. There are no secrets from Him.
When hard times come, people should lose their faith in false doctrine, not in God.