God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.