"Just as the school sees it as part of their job to set up a practice opportunity for teenagers with the SAT exams, it's a parent's job to set up practice opportunities with as many of the expected adult competencies as possible."
"God cares more about the character we bring to our life mission than he does about our ministry's strategic plan."
"There is something out there that God is waiting for you to grab on to so that he can use you to help solve it."
"God is concerned for the whole of humankind and for the whole of human life in all its color and complexity. These universals have important consequences for our thinking."
"God calls the church his bride, and he loves the church as a groom loves his radiant bride. We need to see the church through his eyes."
"God is like the smitten father who anxiously scans the horizon, looking for the crazy, mixed-up kid that is me and you both. Prodigals utterly matter to God."
"As a tune that salutes the unselfish service of men and women whose devotion to duty and country set them apart from their peers, Taps signifies life built on faith, hope, and love."
"The day of divorce doesn't represent a final point in anything but the legal status of the marriage. For many, ongoing battles will continue for months or years."
"Every woman who has been sexually betrayed recalls with vivid clarity that darkest, loneliest day when betrayal entered the sanctuary of her marriage and forever changed her life."
"It is precisely at the juncture of intractable evil, abuse, and human misery that the Christian gospel offers the only possible hope."
"Children and books go together in a special way. I can't imagine any pleasure greater than bringing to the uncluttered, supple mind of a child the delight of knowing the many rich things God has given us to enjoy. Parents have this wonderful privilege, and books are their keenest tools."
"Aslan," said Lucy, "you're bigger." "That is because you are older, little one," answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger."
"Eventually Rauni finally could not doubt the massive number of contradictions she read and translated. The evidence was just too overwhelming. 'Mormonism just doesn't make sense,' she told us."
"Every Sunday morning a minority of people in your town and mine prepare to go to church. For those who walk into a church and take a seat, what is at stake? How much does it really matter what takes place in the next hour?"
"The very freedom of speech and expression that ironically permits critics to castigate Christian values is largely a by-product of Christianity's influences that have been incorporated into the social fabric of the Western world."
"We all have learned that we can go through the motions of leadership with an empty heart. Love is our heartbeat, and too often our heartbeat is weaker than we want to admit."
"Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny."
"Gradually the impression has sunk into the American mind that being a conservative Christian, being evangelical, and being narrow, rigid, militant, and angry are the same."
"Forgiveness has to be the highest level of spiritual development."
