“The church is supposed to model for a confused world what a real human society is supposed to look like. The church is not supposed to be a mirror that reflects the confusions of Manhattan right back at it.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 13

“If you want a nation of pot-smoking fornicators to be free, you want something that is not going to happen.”

Mere Christendom, p. 114

“To return to the idea of the painting, our generation is trying to blot out the painter’s signature on His creation and then trying to repaint the whole thing. Once his name is smudged out, and marriage is no longer defined as ‘one man, one woman, one lifetime,’ the sky is the limit. We have polyamorous relationships, open marriages, sex with robots, bestiality, digital sex using a web page, sex with organs that are not sex organs, and so on. We can hump the world if we want. The painting is now ours—or so we fancy in the midst of this current cultural mushroom dream.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 10

“The First Amendment, rightly understood, does not prohibit a civil acknowledgment of the Lordship of Jesus. It prohibits the establishment of a particular denomination of Christians at the federal level as a national church.”

Mere Christendom, p. 111

“When a man committed adultery many generations ago, he was disobeying but not trying to redefine. It is like the difference between a thief and a socialist. A thief recognizes the boundaries of property, he just doesn’t respect them when it comes to his own personal behavior. The socialist wants to abolish all such distinctions—in effect, he wants to steal the world.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 9-10

“If an action or a behavior is not organically grown by the Spirit in your life, then you have set up a factory to manufacture plastic fruit, and you’re hanging that plastic fruit on your family tree with little wire hooks.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 120