Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God’s life and character.

It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.

Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

Kindness is magical! Be kind to each other.

Comedy was invented to make people forget, That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.

I began drinking because the thought that I was drinking gave me a kind of identity: each time I poured myself a brandy in the deserted afternoon I could say to myself 'I am a woman who drinks.

Spend less time shopping, more time traveling.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

I'm not really a nostalgic person.