Pride does not listen. It knows.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.

I had no sympathy for drama queens.

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.

What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?

Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.