Let’s acknowledge that America’s increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.

That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced ‘religious fanaticism’ as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.

Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word – and the quiet obedience of His servants.

I’d walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don’t ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I’m going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing – since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It’s knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn’t.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God’s Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.

God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it’s convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.

It’s part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn’t surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he’s pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.