Perhaps being a Christian isn’t about experiencing the kingdom of heaven someday but about experiencing the kingdom of heaven every day.

God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood, ' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children.

To Jesus, "by faith alone" did not mean "by belief alone." To Jesus, faith was invariably linked to obedience.

The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality!

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

We will continue talking about the beauty of the deserts as long as the forests exist on Earth! But when the last forest is gone, no beauty of deserts will remain too!

Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.