We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.
The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.
The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.
In God’s world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.
How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king
If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing.
As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began – I am my shepherd. Then – Sheep are my shepherd. Then – Everything is my shepherd. Finally – Nothing is my shepherd.