I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me.

When we protect ourselves from what we fear, we also undermine our capacity for wonder.

The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.

I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

Salvation is not about proving the existence of God

It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a business and its customers.

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.