The great crisis of this seventh age is that there has been a second fall. The first fall led to God's expulsion of human beings from the Garden of Eden. The second fall was when we returned the favor.

When Satan tries to remind us of our past (failures and sins), we're to remind him of his future (ultimate destruction).

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

For life change to happen, we must commit to full cooperation with God's desire to transform us.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Our job is to get people to Jesus Christ and to get them back to Him in profound, life-altering ways every week.

If God is not changing you, you have to honestly ask, "Have I ever really converted?" To put it another way, "If your faith isn't changing you, it hasn't saved you." The people who really have the new birth—the people who really have that conversion experience—are changing.

A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First, it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens all in their rightful place.

One does not cross over from Manichaeism to Christianity, or from Lamarckianism to Darwinism, by a mere adjustment of views. True conversions consist in the choice of a new audience, that is, of a new world. All that was once familiar is now seen in startlingly new ways.

The agents of the miraculous which the novelist has at his command are, roughly speaking, conversion and coincidence;

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.