You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on either side.

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat

To most anarchists, the advocacy of freedom on Earth while bowing to a heavenly tyrant (no matter how imaginary) seems an insupportable contradiction.

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.

And the joy of my job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.

An angel has no memory.

We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.