Charleston was where America split apart in 1861. Maybe it's where America comes together in 2015.

An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants… and their hostages.

The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.

Relationships should be like flat pack come with easy to follow instructions so that you knew which bits fitted where

This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

What?! I'm not small! It's the world that's too big!!

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.