Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God’s life and character.

It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?

As long as you have a beating heart, it's never too late. But you do need to get on with it [. . .] every second you squander is an affront to an unforgiving universe.

As her eyes scanned his face, he feared that she saw everything, right down t the core of him. Where his obsession with her was the strongest. -Butch and Marissa

Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.

My Dad always told me ‘Flowers mean I’m sorry, chocolates mean I love you.’

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.