If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Use time to be a seeker of the Kingdom

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

Old foxes want no tutors.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.