(Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?)

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.

The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations disturbances imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.