Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

Pride does not listen. It knows.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

[E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.

Love may be blind, but lust is just damn stupid.

The imperfections of religions can only be understood by their unfollowers, not followers.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'