Martin E. Marty Quotes

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.