To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

If the church is the body of Christ [who was disguised in servant form], why would we think the world would be able to pick us out of a crowd of other well-meaning organizations?

For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises better than the church.

To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it.

[denial] is an attempt to bring order to our lives.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

The greatest gift that you can give anyone is your pure love.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

By turns the nine delight to sing

Follow your dreams.No matter what