Quotes from Richard J. Mouw

We cannot hope to bring about effective change unless we are willing to BE changed.

The Christian community must live out it's calling in the conscious recognition that secularism is false.

The recognition of a distinct 'national identity' among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend and override our commitments to governments and groups outside the church.

Our calling is to imitate Jesus in his willingness to suffer rather than to follow the ways of the powers.

Las Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

Living for Jesus was the ultimate "thrill," Templeton informed his audiences. He told young men and women that Christ was "the most exciting man who's ever lived ... the most extraordinary man who's ever lived,"63 and not just a man, but God Himself.

there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry 'Mine!

the land of fadeless day lies the city foursquare; it shall never pass away and there is no night there.

The tone of his songs was consistently celebratory: "Isn't it grand to be a Christian, isn't it grand?" singers asked one another. Isn't

our civility is grounded in a genuine conviction that we have much to do by way of preparing for the city that is to come. Practicing a calm and steady humility is not merely a way of biding our time until the end-time arrives. It is itself a crucial way of anticipating the final chapter of the narrative, an important preparation for the eschaton. Indeed

Many evangelicals have a difficult time adjusting to a highly pluralistic culture, and we often come across as trying to impose our standards—which