As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

If the church is the body of Christ [who was disguised in servant form], why would we think the world would be able to pick us out of a crowd of other well-meaning organizations?

For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises better than the church.

To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.

When you brought light to my darkness, I undiscovered the eclipse!

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Führer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when he is having tea with his friends during the night, or when he is training his dogs!

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.