Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way.

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

In Speaking Out I do my best to answer those questions I was asked and more, and I provide strategies for how to speak out and keep on speaking out without burning out.

The universe is pregnant with signs that recall the presence of the Creator.