“The line of despair does not mean people sit around and cry all the time, but it does mean that when we reach the line of despair, whether we have seen it at the time in philosophy or in the artists we have studied, in the musicians, the general culture, it means that men have come to the place that on a humanist, rational, logical answer, on the basis of this, they no longer expect to be able to draw a circle which will encompass all of knowledge and life.”
“Experience is the key word to understanding modern man in the West. For everyday purposes, the mind is a useful instrument, but for the things of meaning, for the answers to the big questions, it is set aside.”
“We must say with sadness that in some places, seminaries, institutions, and individuals who are known as evangelical no longer hold to a full view of Scripture.”
“The existential methodology has infiltrated the theology that is sometimes called evangelical. This is the form the world spirit takes in our day, in which dominates in our generation.”
“If truth is one, that is if truth has unity, then Christian education means understanding, and being excited by, the associations between the disciplines and showing how these associations are rooted in the Creator's existence.”