As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

Be aware, putting on a poker face can backfire during your first impressions because it can make people uncomfortable and make you more difficult to read and harder to get to know.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

All my available funds are completely tied up in cash.